Adrienne Monnier

For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go…

— Adrienne Monnier

In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish…

— Adrienne Monnier

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to…

— Adrienne Monnier

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

— Adrienne Monnier

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

— Adrienne Monnier

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of…

— Adrienne Monnier

Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.

— Adrienne Monnier

One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who…

— Adrienne Monnier

I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a…

— Adrienne Monnier

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

— Adrienne Monnier

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of…

— Adrienne Monnier