French Writer Quotations | Page 2

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

We always love those that admire us, but we do not always love those we admire.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.