Beautiful quotes in French with translation
Beautiful quotes can lift your spirits, inspire and motivate. They look good on pages in social networks, are an ideal addition to a personal diary. Think you know all the profound aphorisms? Our selection will be able to convince you otherwise.
In the collection presented on our site you will find original, interesting quotes in French. Each phrase here is accompanied by high quality translation into Russian.
Si on vit sans but, on mourra pour rien. - If you do not live for something, you will die for nothing.
L'amour est la sagesse du fou et la deraison du sage. - Love is the wisdom of the fool and the foolishness of the wise man.
Ayant risqué une fois-on peut rester heureux toute la vie. - Once you take a risk, you can stay happy all your life.
Chaque chose en son temps. - All in good time.
L'amour est une sottise faite à deux. - Love is a foolishness made by two.
La sincerite est la forme la plus parfaite de l'illusion. Quand celle-ci est morte, defaite, il ne reste que la lucidite. - Sincerity is the most perfect form of illusion. When it dies, defeats and leaves only clarity.
Bon jour, bonne œuvre. - On a festive day and deeds are festive.
L'appétit vient en mangeant. - Appetite comes with a meal.
Le sens de la vie est de réaliser tous vos rêves. - The meaning of life is to fulfill all your dreams.
Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse. - Nothing lasts forever under the moon.
French quotes about lifei
- "À vaillant coeur rien d'impossible." (Jacques Cœur) - "Nothing is impossible for a valiant heart.
- "Dans une grande âme tout est grand." (Blaise Pascal) - "For a great mind everything is great.
It means that a great mind is able to see the great even in the small.
- "Chacun voit midi à sa porte" - Everyone sees noon from his door (French proverb, analogous to the expression "Once a year and a stick shoots").
- "Je pense, donc je suis" - I think, therefore I exist (René Descartes).
- "On ne change pas une équipe qui gagne" - "Don't change the team that wins" (French proverb).
Russian analogue: don't break what works, "don't do as I feel better, leave me as I feel good."
- "Prouver que j'ai raison serait accorder que je puis avoir tort" - "To prove me right is to admit that I might have been wrong" (Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, author of the famous Figaro plays)
- "On n'est point toujours une bête pour l'avoir été quelquefois" - "To be a fool does not mean to remain a fool forever" (Denis Diderot)
- "Il n'y a pas de verités moyennes" - "There are no half-truths" (Georges Bernanos)
- "Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop" - "Chase away the natural, and it will return at a gallop" (French proverb)
That is, if you neglect natural needs - they will come back a hundredfold.
- "Il vaut mieux prévenir que guérir" - "Prevention is the best cure" (French proverb)
- "Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on. Le malheur est qui'il tue ses élèves" - "We say that time is the best teacher, only it kills its students" (Hector Berlioz)
- "Être adulte, c'est être seul" - "To be an adult is to be alone" (Jean Rostand)
- "Un homme seul est toujours en mauvaise compagnie" - "A lonely man is always in bad company" (Paul Valery)
- "A vaincre sans peril, on triomphe sans gloire" - "Victory without risk is triumph without glory" (Pierre Corneille)
- "L'enfer, c'est les autres" - "Hell is others" (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- "La raison c'est la folie du plus fort. La raison du moins fort c'est de la folie" (Eugène Ionesco)
The expression is based on a play on words: in French, as in English, the same word can mean "reason" and "reason," as well as "madness" (as "loss of reason, mental illness") and "anger."
In other words, the strongest people, according to Ionesco, get angry and go mad because they are too clever (woe from the mind, "the more I learn, the more I realize I know nothing"), while the less powerful rely in their actions on "madness" - on anger, on emotions (the word "mind" here in French is understood as "reason", that is, madness becomes the cause of their actions, their reason).
- "Autres temps, autres mœurs" - "Different times, different manners" (French proverb)
- "La vérité vaut bien qu'on passe quelques années sans la trouver" - "The truth becomes more valuable if it took you several years to find it" (Jules Renard)
- "Il faut bonne mémoire après au'on a menti" - "A liar needs a good memory" (Pierre Corneille)
- "Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre déjà de ce qu'il craint" - "He who is afraid of suffering already suffers because he is afraid" (La Fontana)
- "Il vaut mieux faire que dire" - "It is better to do than to speak" (Alfred de Musset)
- "La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoin ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde" - "True valor is doing what you could do in front of everyone, without witnesses" (La Rochefoucauld)
Beautiful French words for a store or cafe name
French words make stylish and intriguing names for brands, stores and cafes. For example, candy "Bonjour" (good day) or store "bon prix" (good price). There are many examples of beautiful French words for the name, it is important to be able to choose exactly what you need. A small selection of common beautiful words in the names of stores and cafes:
- L'Assiette [lassiette] - plate;
- Le joie [l'ajoie] - joy;
- La fête [la fête] - celebration;
- Dîner [dîner] - dinner;
- Paradis [paradis] - paradise;
- La Fleur [la fleur] - a flower;
- Le repas [lerapa], a rest, a break;
- Beaulieu [baulieu] - a good place;
- Bienvenue [bienvenue] - welcome;
- Moments de la rue [moman délairage] - Moments of the street;
- Chez Pierre [chi pierre] - At Pierre's;
- Patisserie [patisserie] - pastry shop;
- Temple de nourriture [tample de nourriture] - temple of food.
French Quotes about Success5
Motivating, inspiring, helping to move forward.
- "C'est tonjours le bon moment de faire ce qui est juste" - "For just causes, the moment is always good" (Martin Luther King). In other words: don't wait for the right moment, act now.
- "Soyez le changement que vous voulez voir dans ce monde" - "Be the change you want to see in the world." In other words: you want to change the world, start with yourself.
- "Vous n'etes pas encore arrives mais vous etes plus proche qu'hier" - "You have not reached your goal, but you are closer than yesterday.
- "Peu implorte la lenteur a laquelle vous allez tant que vous n'arretez pas" - "No matter how slowly you move, the main thing is not to stop.
- "Le meileur moment pour planter un arbre etait il y a 20 ans, le deuxeme Meilleur moment c'est maintenant" - "The best moment to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best moment is now!"
- "Les portes de l'avenir sont ouvertes a ceuz qui savent les pousser" - "The door to the future is open to those who know how to break through it."
- "L'esprit s'enrichit de ce qu'il recout, le caeur de ce qu'il donne" - "The spirit is enriched by what it receives and the heart by what it gives."
- "Se jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait" - "If youth knew, if old age could".
- "Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir" - "To achieve great things, we must live as if we would never die."
- "On n'apprend pas a nager a un canard" - "Don't teach the duck to swim"
- "Petit ruse, petit malin" - "Quite cunning is quite clever." The proverb means that in order to be cunning, one must have intelligence.
- "Une petite cause peut avoir de grands affets" - "A small cause means big consequences. A more common counterpart of this proverb: "A flutter of butterflies' wings on one side of the continent leads to a hurricane on the opposite side.
- "Les gens qui ne font rien manquent de temps pour tout" - "People who do nothing, do nothing in time."
- "Les trusts ne sont pas toujours des verites" - "Confidence is not always true."
Beautiful French words for company names
To choose a beautiful name in French for your project, we advise you to pay attention to French toponyms - they are often found in various naming options:
- Provençal [Provençal];
- Saint-Germain [Saint-Germain];
- Châteaurenard [Châteaurenard];
- Clermont [clermont];
- Montmorillo [Montmorillo];
- Beaumont [beaumont];
- Valdivienne [valdivienne];
- Fontenay [Fontenay];
- Fondettes [Fondetes];
- Châtenay-Malabry [Châtenay-Malabry];
- Villeurbanne [villeur ban];
- Belleville [belleville];
- Savonnières [Savonnières].
Significance in human life
Man strives for interpersonal unity. It is inherent in him to look for the other half. The problem of love occupies an important place in human life and activity. It has great value in all religions, humanistic and philosophical movements. This feeling cannot be understood with the head, it is felt only with the heart. It helps one to overcome any adversity. Love makes people create great masterpieces, do crazy things.
What can be more beautiful in life! All the shades and properties of this feeling in the "land of the Franklin" are amplified several times. It is France that has always been recognized as a symbol of love. The word "love" in French is pronounced melodiously and subtly. The verb "aimere" gives a special mystery to any expression in the "language of love": Vivre et aimer (To live is to love). L'amour est comme une rose (Love comes only once). Je t'aime (I love you), etc. д. Any modern French translator can always help you express your feelings if you want to. It's worth stocking it just in case.
Numerals
| Phrase in Russian | Translation | Pronunciation |
| 1 | un , une | en , jun |
| 2 | deux | do |
| 3 | trois | troua |
| 4 | quatre | quatre |
| 5 | cinq | cinq |
| 6 | six | cis |
| 7 | sept | set |
| 8 | huit | wit |
| 9 | neuf | neuf |
| 10 | dix | dis |
| 11 | onz | onz |
| 12 | douze | duz |
| 13 | treize | treze |
| 14 | quatorze | quatorze |
| 15 | quinze | quinze |
| 16 | seize | seize |
| 17 | dix-sept | diset |
| 18 | dix-huit | disuit |
| 19 | dix-neuf | dix-neuf |
| 20 | vingt | van |
| 21 | vingt et un | vin te en |
| 22 | vingt-deux | vain deux |
| 23 | vingt-trois | vain trois |
| 30 | trente | trente |
| 40 | quarante | très tête en |
| 50 | cinquante | cinquante |
| 60 | soixante | soixante |
| 70 | soixante-dix | soixante-dix |
| 80 | quatre-vingt(s) | quatre-vingt-van |
| 90 | quatre-vingt-dix | quatre-vingt(s) dis |
| 100 | cent | san |
| 101 | cent un | santen |
| 102 | cent deux | cent deux |
| 110 | cent dix | sant dis |
| 178 | cent soixante-dix-huit | sans soixante-dix-huit |
| 200 | deux cents | deux san |
| 300 | trois cents | trois san |
| 400 | quatre cents | catreux san |
| 500 | cinq cents | sen sen |
| 600 | six cents | si san |
| 700 | sept cents | seth san |
| 800 | huit cents | Yui san |
| 900 | neuf cents | neuf san |
| 1 000 | mille | mille |
| 2 000 | deux mille | deux mille |
| 1 000 000 | un million | en mille |
| 1 000 000 000 | un milliard | en mille |
| 0 | zero | zero |
Gallicisms
French words used in Russian are called gallicisms, they have become a part of Russian speech with a great number of words and their derivatives, similar in sense or, on the contrary, only in sounding.
Pronunciation of French words differs from Slavic words by the presence of throat and nasal sounds, for example, "an" and "he" are pronounced by passing the sound through the nasal cavity, and "en" through the lower part of the front throat wall. Also characteristic of this language is the stress on the last syllable of the word and soft hissing sounds, as in "brochure" and "jelly." Another indicator of Gallicism is the presence in a word of suffixes -aj, -ar, -ism (plumage, massage, boudoir, monarchism). Already these subtleties make it clear how unique and diverse the French state language is.
Ideas for names
Beautiful words in French are an inexhaustible source of ideas for the name of your own brand, channel. Especially if the theme of beauty is chosen. The words should be chosen so that they are not only pleasant to hear, but also support the mission, idea and style of the company.
At the same time, it is desirable that they were simple, memorable, easy to understand by ear and in writing to potential customers.
For beauty salon
Below in the table are examples of variants of names with translation:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
| Coquillage | Coquillage | Shell |
| Doux | Doux | Soft, delicate, sweet. |
| Eclatant | Eclatant | Sparkling, glittering, fiery. |
| Voile | Foile | Voile |
| Papillon de nuit. | Papillon de nuit. | Papillon de nuit |
| Retrouvailles | Retrouvailles | Retrouvailles |
| Framboises | Framboises | Raspberry |
| Mérite | Mérite | Merit, dignity |
| Briller | Briller | Brilliance |
| Rubis | Ruby | Rubis |
| Léger | Léger | Light |
For Shop
When choosing words for the store, it makes sense to start with the theme.
Below are universal examples that sound good and make positive sense:
| The word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
| Bonbon | Bonbon | Candy |
| Floraison | Florizon | Blossom, blossom, abundance |
| Tournesol | Tournesol | Sunflower |
| Hirondelle | Hirondelle | Swallow |
| Chaleur | Chaleur | Heat |
| Aile | Aile | Wing |
| Ours | Urs | Bear |
| Colline | Colin | Hill |
| Navire | Navire | Ship |
| Cep | Sap | Grapevine |
| Courage | Courage | Courage |
| Lis bleu | Lis bleu | Blue Lily |
French Quotes about Art3
France has long been the art capital of the world. The best musicians, the best artists, writers, and philosophers were all either born in France or aspired to be there. So here are the top ten quotes about art:
- "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur" - "Only the heart is alert" (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
- "Un peuple malheureux fait les grands artistes" (Alfred de Musset)
- "L'æuvre d'art, c'est une idée qu'on exagére" - "A work of art is an exaggerated idea" (André Gide)
- "Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs" - "Books are cold and faithful friends" (Victor Hugo)
- "Le monde est un livre dont chaque pas nous ouvre une page" - "The world is a book: with every step you open a new page" (Alphonse de Lamartine)
- "Ècrire, c'est une façon de parler sans être interpu" - "Writing is an opportunity to say without being interrupted" (Jules Renard)
- "Imaginer c'est choisir" - "To imagine is to choose" (Jean Gionod)
- "Les chefs-d'oeuvre ne sont jamais que des tentatives heureuses" - "Masterpieces are nothing but successful attempts" (Georges Sand)
- "La critique est aisée, mais l'art est difficile" - "Critique is easy, art is difficult" (Philippe Detouche)
