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Happiness from the beauty of the French language.



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14 French quotes to make you happy!



Dans une grande âme tout est grand. -Blaise Pascal

“In a great mind everything is great.”



Il vaut mieux prévenir que guérir. -French proverb

“It is better to prevent than to heal.”


À vaillant coeur rien d’impossible. -Jacques Cœur

“For a valiant heart nothing is impossible.”


Chacun voit midi à sa porte. -French proverb

“Everyone sees noon at his own door.”


On n’est point toujours une bête pour l’avoir été quelquefois. -Denis Diderot

“Being a fool sometimes does not make one a fool all the time.”



Il vaut mieux faire que dire. -Alfred de Musset

“Doing is better than saying.”



Il n’y a qu’un bonheur dans la vie, c’est d’aimer et d’être aimé. -George Sand

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”



La vie est une fleur dont l’amour est le miel. -Victor Hugo

“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”



Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Love doesn’t mean gazing at each other, but looking, together, in the same direction.”



L’amour est comme le vent, nous ne savons pas d’où il vient. -Honoré de Balzac

“Love is like the wind, we never know where it will come from.”



Entre deux cœurs qui s’aiment, nul besoin de paroles. -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

“Two hearts in love need no words.”



Oh! Si tu pouvais lire dans mon coeur, tu verrais la place où je t’ai mise! -Gustave Flaubert

“If you could read my heart, you would see the place I have given you there.”



Le monde est un livre dont chaque pas nous ouvre une page. -Alphonse de Lamartine

“The world is a book – with each step we open a page.”



Les chefs-d’oeuvre ne sont jamais que des tentatives heureuses. -George Sand

“Masterpieces are never anything else but happy attempts.”




Submitted: May 9, 2021






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