Quotes explicitly convey the message and are great ways for expression. Go through the article to find some famous French quotations.

Famous French Quotes

Quotes have a mystic quality to them and convey the message quite explicitly to the people. Quotations can be categorized into a various types depending on the subject. Some of the various types are inspirational quotes, romantic quotes, life quotes, friendship quotes, political quotes, funny quotes and so on. From inspiring us to even making us laugh quotes are very popular ways of expression and learning them in a different language can be all the more fun. Read on to find some famous French sayings.
 
Famous French Quotes
 
French: Faites-vous des amis prompts à vous censurer.
English: Make friends with those who would be quick to criticize you.
Boileu
 
French: Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.
English: Man's greatest weakness is his love of life.
Molière
 
French: La vérité vaut bien qu'on passe quelques années sans la trouver.
English: Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it.
Renard
 
French: La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoin ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.
English: True valor is to do in secrecy what you could just have easily done before others.
La Rochefoucauld
 
French: A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire.
English: To win without risk is a triumph without glory.
Corneille
 
French: Le travail éloigne de nous trois grands maux: l'ennui, le vice et le besoin.
English: Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want.
Voltaire.
 
French: Quiconque flatte ses maîtres les trahit.
English: He who flatters his superiors betrays them.
Massillon.
 
French: Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on, le malheur est qu'il tue ses élèves.
English: We say that time is a great teacher. It's too bad that it also kills all its students.
Berlioz.
 
French: Comprendre, c'est pardoner.
English: To understand is to forgive.
De Stael.
 
French:Le vrai philosphe n'attend rien des homes, et il leur fait tout le bien don't il est capable
English: The true philosopher expects nothing from others and offers them the best he can give them
Voltaire.
 
French: Les grandes pensées viennent du coeur.
English: The greatest thoughts come from the heart.
Vauvenargues
 
French: La critique est aisée, mais l'art est difficile.
English:  Criticism is easy, art is difficult.
Destouches.
 
French: Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.
English: Generally speaking, the people who know little speak a lot and the people who know a lot speak little.
Rousseau
 
French:Ce qui manque aux orateurs en profundeur, ils vous le donnent en longueur.
English: Whatever a speaker is missing in depth he will compensate for in length.
Montesquieu.
 
French: Rien ne pèse tant que un secret.
English: Nothing weighs more than a secret.
La Fonataine.
 
French: La parole nous a été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée.
English: We were given speech to hide our thoughts.
Talleyrand.
 
French: La cuisine, c'est quand les choses ont le goût de ce qu'elles sont.
English: Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are. Curnonsky.
 
French: Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
English: A fool can always find an even bigger fool to admire him.
Boileau.
 
French: Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire.
English: It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them.
De La Sabliére.
 
French: L'orgueil est le consolateur des faibles.
English: Pride is the consolation of the weak.

Vauvenargues.

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