French Love Quotes

Since French is thought to be the language of love, using French love quotes to enhance your love life is essential. Even if the object of desire doesn't exactly understand, the beautiful sound of the words is sure to please.

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Certainly those who utilize French love quotes should understand what they are saying, if only to add the requisite passion to the amorous utterances. Therefore the quotes provided below are in both French and English.

Most French love quotes come from writers, those whose passion and profession is to put words together that convey beauty and lyricism. Many of the greatest masterpieces of French literature are overflowing with love, often unrequited, but always quotable.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was, among other things, a novelist whose greatest contribution to literary history is À la recherche du temps perdu known in English as In Search of Lost Time or Remembrances of Things Past. He is also the source of innumerable great quotations like this one from his novel, La Prisonnière (The Captive):

• On n'aime que ce qu'on ne possède pas tout entier.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

George Sand, born was Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin and later the Baroness Dudevant, was a famous French woman of letters who produced many novels. She is well known for having defied convention by living apart from her husband, being lovers with Frdéréic Chopin and for having dressed in men's clothes thereby gaining access to places she wouldn't have been able to. Her most famous quote by far is from a Letter to Lina Calamatta:

• Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé.

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

Other famous french quotes on the subject of love are as follows:

• Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour.

Nothing is real but dreams and love, from Le Coeur innombrable, IV, Chanson du temps opportun by Anna de Noailles.

• En amour, écrire est dangereux, sans compter que c'est inutile

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless, from Le Demi-Monde by Alexandre Dumas Fils

• Si tu m'aimais, et si je t'aimais, comme je t'aimerais!

If you loved me, and if I loved you, how I would love you!, from Toi et moi, Epigraphe by Paul Geraldy

• L'on est bien faible quand on est amoureux

One is very weak when one is in love, from La Princesse de Montpensier by Madame de Lafayette

• L'amour fait les plus grandes douceurs et les plus sensibles infortunes de la vie

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes, from Choix de pensees de l'amour by Madeleine de Scudery

French songs have also provided many memorable quotes about love.

Je t'aime is probably the most famous love quote of all as it means I love you. It is also the title of one of the sexiest songs ever recorded in France or anywhere else. Even more interesting is the story behind the now famous version by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin which was un succès de scandale when released in 1967.

Piaf, who led a life of suffering and passion, was the queen of French love songs. One of her most famous La Vie en Rose includes the following mots d'amour:

Quand il me prend dans les bras

Il me parle tout bas

Je vois la vie en rose

When he takes me in his arms

and speaks to me softly

I see the world through rose-colored glasses

There are many more equally lovely passages from this song and others by Piaf which speak of love.

The French are the source of some of the most famous ideas and words about love. Be sure to handle them with care.

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