pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music. — Francoise Sagan Military Copy Share Image
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly. — Francoise Sagan Education Copy Share Image
I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time. — Francoise Sagan Best way 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 Copy Share Image
“We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.” — Françoise Sagan Past 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
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“On s’habitue aux défauts des autres quand on ne croit pas de son devoir de les corriger.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women. — Francoise Sagan 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 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
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at… — Francoise Sagan Expression Copy Share Image
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows… — Francoise Sagan Anguish Copy Share Image
Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to… — Francoise Sagan 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 Copy Share Image
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The… — Francoise Sagan Interest Copy Share Image
“Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.” — Francoise Sagan Little girl Copy Share Image
“For unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.” — Françoise Sagan Education Copy Share Image
“She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their… — Françoise Sagan Tears Copy Share Image
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan Character 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 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
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the… — Francoise Sagan Book Copy Share Image
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading? — Francoise Sagan Love Copy Share Image
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent. — Francoise Sagan Boundaries Copy Share Image
“God help us!' Josée thought. 'Here we have one of those regular biblical women! She thinks that a baby will win back… — Françoise Sagan Babies Copy Share Image
