Francoise Sagan
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.Collection: Jealousy
I always believe things are going to work out.Collection: Hope
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.Collection: Humor
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.Collection: Marriage
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.Collection: Time
Art must take reality by surprise.Collection: Art
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.Collection: Love
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.Collection: Funny
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.Collection: Love
Love is worth whatever it costs.Collection: Love Is
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.Collection: Despair
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.Collection: Opposites
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.Collection: Curiosity
Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.Collection: Gambling
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.Collection: Men
Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.Collection: Passion
In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.Collection: Credit
For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.Collection: Desire
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.Collection: Relationship
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.Collection: Imagination
If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.Collection: Love Life
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.Collection: Strong
At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.Collection: Night
I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.Collection: Husband
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 it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Eye
One partner is always more in love than the other.Collection: Partners
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.Collection: Ugly
Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.Collection: Way
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.Collection: Firefly
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.Collection: Uplifting
A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.Collection: Jealousy
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.Collection: People