“On s’habitue aux défauts des autres quand on ne croit pas de son devoir de les corriger.” — Françoise Sagan Madame Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women. — Francoise Sagan Feel sorry Copy Share Image
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition. — Francoise Sagan Ifs Copy Share Image
“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you” — Francoise Sagan Dress Copy Share Image
“He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.” — Françoise Sagan Dreams Copy Share Image
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success. — Francoise Sagan Forgiving Copy Share Image
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking. — Francoise Sagan Common Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to ask people: “Are you in love? What are you reading?” — Françoise Sagan Love Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front"… — Francoise Sagan Face reality Copy Share Image
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves… — Francoise Sagan Bangs Copy Share Image
“Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process… — Françoise Sagan Eating Copy Share Image
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they… — Francoise Sagan Eye Copy Share Image
I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't… — Francoise Sagan Books Copy Share Image
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne.… — Francoise Sagan Accepted Copy Share Image
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought… — Francoise Sagan Absurd Copy Share Image
When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to… — Francoise Sagan Apollo Copy Share Image
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible. — Francoise Sagan Freedom Copy Share Image
“No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.” — Francoise Sagan Boasting Copy Share Image
“Neither one of them hesitated to translate feeling into action, when an opportunity arose.” — Françoise Sagan Hesitated Copy Share Image
“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.” — Françoise Sagan Writer Copy Share Image
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. — Francoise Sagan Bus Copy Share Image
“I was going away, leaving behind me the villa, the garden and that summer.” — Françoise Sagan Garden Copy Share Image
Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it. — Francoise Sagan Best way Copy Share Image
“It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter.” — Françoise Sagan Children Copy Share Image
“We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.” — Françoise Sagan Past Copy Share Image
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… — Francoise Sagan Arcs Copy Share Image
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable. — Francoise Sagan Discovery Copy Share Image
“She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...” — Françoise Sagan Every woman Copy Share Image
“We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted… — Françoise Sagan Crying Copy Share Image
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,… — Francoise Sagan Becoming Copy Share Image
“He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well… — Françoise Sagan Drinking Copy Share Image
