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.

 

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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