26 quotes
No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved — two conditions seldom fulfilled.
Scars on the Soul (1972)
Just because life is inelegant doesn't mean we have to behave likewise.
Scars on the Soul (1972)
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
Un certain sourire (1955)
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does.
Un chagrin de passage (1994)
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
One is never free except in relation to someone else. And when, the relation is based on happiness, it allows the greatest freedom in the world.
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969)
Lying stimulates one's imagination and ingenuity.
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969)
Jazz music is a form of accelerated unconcern.
Un certain sourire (1955)
Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
Armand was wearing striped silk pajamas, purchased at Charvet, and the somewhat oversize Russian collar gave him more than ever the look of a plucked bird.
The Painted Lady (1983)
"One must cherish one's effigies, if one can tolerate them, perhaps more lovingly than one cherishes one's intrinsic self." That's the ABC of pride. And of humor.
Scars on the Soul (1972)
Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.
Un chagrin de passage (1994)
She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
When a man has dreamed of winning something by a colossal stroke of luck, he is prone to neglect petty but more practical ways of attaining it.
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little — oh, I admit only a very little — of what life is about.
Scars on the Soul (1972)
We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.
Un certain sourire (1955)