“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
— Mark Twain“Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!”
— Albert Camus“Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.”
— Jean Guitton“Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.”
— Michel de Montaigne“I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.”
— Tana French“Heard straight from Napoleon’s mouth himself,” I say. “Champagne! In victory we deserve it, and in defeat we need it.”
— Rebecca RosenbergIt is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
— André Gide