Quotes About Francs

#1. It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

Moliere

#2. Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between 50 to 100 francs at the most. I have to say ... that I feel somewhat embarrassed at this admission.

Claude Monet

#3. Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

#4. You don't lose much when the landlord's house burns down. Another landlord will always turn up, unless it's the same one, German or French, English or Chinese, to collect the rent ... In marks or francs? What difference does it make, seeing you've got to pay ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

Victor Hugo

#6. Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore De Balzac

#9. A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.

Victor Hugo

#10. Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

Joanne Harris

#11. The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk.

George Orwell

#12. A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day?" "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." The unfortunate girl became a woman of the town.

Victor Hugo

#13. Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

Eric Idle

#14. This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.

Napoleon III

#15. I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.

Michael Hirst

#16. Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

Camille Claudel

#17. I'm not sure what's more worrying. The list of demands or the fact he seems unaware the French stopped using francs in the last century and that Africa is a continent?" - Jerome

Jamie Scallion

#18. A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Paul Scofield

#19. I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

Claude Monet

#20. There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#21. We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

Ingvar Kamprad

#22. A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

Gaston Leroux

#23. Be that as it may, it is here that Le Chiffre will, we are confident, endeavour on or after 15 June to make a profit at baccarat of fifty million francs on a working capital of twenty-five million. (And, incidentally, save his life.)

Ian Fleming

#24. He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world.

Victor Hugo

#25. The light remains, because "feel" is a word full of traps.

Paulo Coelho

#26. I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

Billy Collins

#27. The answer to nearly every question is written down someplace. It just might take a while to find.

Lemony Snicket

#28. To make a million, start with $900,000.

Morton Shulman

#29. It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

Julius Wellhausen

#30. The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Joseph Addison

#31. I am the same as the public as my fans.

Jenni Rivera

#32. I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the story and to actually tell the story with the unique emotional and narrative powers of music.

David Raiklen

#33. There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.

Amy Carmichael

#34. Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

William Penn

#35. One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

Allan Lokos

#36. We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

Walter Cronkite