Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“E vinovat de adulter? Atunci e vinovat si de casatorie. Cum se poate merge in fata unui primar sau a unui preot…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Women are pleasing because they come to us wrapped in the catkin of an enigma and they cease to please when they…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Momo: [reading Ibrahim's will] This is my will and testament. I, Ibrahim Demirdji, hereby leave all my goods to Moses Schmitt, my…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“She had pronounced the words “New Books” with caution and regret, articulating them reluctantly, as if they were vulgar, even obscene words.…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Tu mourras par où tu as péché.”

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Les pensées sont des femmes, on les renifle, on les suit, on s'engrise et puis brusquement, le désir bifurque et l'on va…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“All the highway is good for is to tell you to keep moving, there's nothing to see. That's for idiots who want…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time.”

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“La souffrance physique on la subit, la souffrance morale on la choisit.”

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Szczęście, którego wyczekujemy, potrafi zburzyć to, które właśnie przeżywamy”

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“No, you're mistaken. Not 'What filthy weather' but 'It's a fine rainy day.”

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“You only really discover a masterpiece after a third or fourth reading, don’t you agree?” “And how can you tell something is…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Guarda Momo. La Senna adora i ponti, è come una donna che va matta per i braccialetti.”

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no…

— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt