Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore,… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
“It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to pass through the brain; and still one needs the guts, and good old, indispensable technique, to bring it to the light of day. That, at least, is how I see the process, not that I have ever been… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine.… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won,… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
