Discover French culture with quotations

- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

- Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

- Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

- The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

- Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

- A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

- A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

- I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

- They erected a beautiful statue to TIME with this inscription: TO THE ONE WHICH CONSOLES.

- Common sense is not so common.

- If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.

- It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

- Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.

- Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

- Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

- How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Pierre Perret – France without Paris is like a lamb without mustard.

- Charles De Gaulle –How do you expect to govern a country where there are 258 sorts of cheese?

- Vincent Van Gogh – I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

- Pablo Picasso –Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

- Le Corbusier – The greatness does not reflect in the dimensions but in the intention.