35 quotes found
Author · French · 1885–1967
French author (1885–1967)
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.”
“Business is a combination of war and sport.”
“He who wants to do everything will never do anything.”
“One might have said that reason made him flee from reason.”
“There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.”
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the bod...”
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
“People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been a...”
“Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.”
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
“A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”
“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.”
“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”
“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.”
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.”
“Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.”
“The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.”
