114 quotes
The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
There are very few men who do not reckon the cost to themselves of a system of taxes before approving it.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
In restaurants, the duration of silence between couples is too often proportionate to the length of their life together.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
Nothing is so discouraging to subordinates as a chief who hesitates. "Firmness," said Napoleon, "prevails in all things."
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
"The friendship of two young people," says Goethe somewhere, "is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach."
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
There are more love marriages in the United States than in any other country, but Americans are also given to quick and frequent divorces.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
It's better to arouse pity than envy.
A Time for Silence (1942)
Style is the outcome of constraint.
The Art of Writing (1957)
Telephones are like women. No one really knows anything about them. One fine day, something goes wrong; you try to find out why, no good, you swear, you shake them up a bit and all is well.
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble) (1918)
The best way to honor friends who have died is to treat our living ones with equal affection.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
Tell only what is necessary to the person one must tell, and only when it must be told.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
Balzac says that many young husbands are so ignorant of women that they make him think of orang-outangs trying to play the violin.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
A successful marriage puts an end to feminine friendships; but if marriage is a failure, the young woman must have others to confide in.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)
It is easy to be admired when one remains inaccessible.
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939)