Françoise Sagan Quotes

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

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.

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.

He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.

We are born crying, and for good reason, ' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

What we love we may also despise.

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

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.