Francoise Sagan Quotes
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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.
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My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
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No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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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.
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I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
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Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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I always believe things are going to work out.
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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.
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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.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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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.
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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
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