24 quotes found
“What we love we may also despise.”
“Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”
“his conscience washed clean by happiness.”
“Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.”
“I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.”
“Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”
“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
“For what Luc was in fact proposing was just a game, an enticing game, but, even so, one that could destroy my undoubtedly quite genuine feelings for Bertrand; and it could destroy something else wi...”
“He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.”
“Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.”
“There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.”
“We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.”
“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism....”
“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”
“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.”
“Il arrive un ge o ils ne sont plus sduisants, ni en forme, comme on dit. Ils ne peuvent plus boire et ils pensent encore aux femmes; seulement ils sont obligs de les payer, d'accepter des quantits ...”
