French Literary Quotes about "tant"

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Tant pis et tant mieux étant les deux grands pivots de la conversation française, un étranger ferait bien de se mettre au fait de leur emploi avant d'arriver à Paris.

So much the worse and so much the better being the two great pivots of French conversation, a foreigner would do well to get acquainted with their employment before arriving in Paris.

Tant pis, and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges of French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them, before he gets to Paris.

Laurence Sterne Clonmel, Irlande, 1713-Londres 1768 Le Voyage sentimental

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Où tu ne peux pas dire tant mieux, dis : tant pis, Nathanaël. Il y a là de grandes promesses de bonheur.

Where you cannot say so much the better, say: too bad, Nathanaël. There are great promises of happiness there.

André Gide Paris 1869-Paris 1951 Les Nourritures terrestres Gallimard

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