French quotes

Discover beautiful and inspiring quotes in French, capturing the essence of romance, philosophy, and culture on our quote website. Vive la France!

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

- Louis Pasteur

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

- Louis Pasteur

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

- Louis Pasteur

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind.

- Louis Pasteur

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

- Louis Pasteur

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

- Louis Pasteur

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud!

- Coco Chanel

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

- Theophile Gautier

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.

- Theophile Gautier

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

- Theophile Gautier

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

- Theophile Gautier

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

- Theophile Gautier

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

- Theophile Gautier

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

- Theophile Gautier

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

- Theophile Gautier

Modesty was made for the ugly.

- Theophile Gautier

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.

- Theophile Gautier

It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

- Theophile Gautier

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

- Theophile Gautier

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal, one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

- Theophile Gautier