"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves……" — Maurice Chevalier
"It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations."
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20 Quotes by Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of…
- If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not…
- You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
- The crime of loving is forgetting.
- Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- I prefer old age to the alternative.
- Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen…
- Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When…
- Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so…
- When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at…
- Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.
- Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
More Bedeck Quotes
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