Françoise Sagan > Quotes

“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
― Françoise Sagan

“Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”
― Francois Sagan

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
― Françoise Sagan

“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”
― Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache

“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
― Françoise Sagan

“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.”
― Françoise Sagan

“The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?”
― Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile

“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you”
― Francoise Sagan

“I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.”
― Francois Sagan

“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
― Francoise Sagan

“It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Françoise Sagan

“My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.”
― Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an

“He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.”
― Francoise Sagan

“What you call types of mind are only mental ages.”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.”
― Francois Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“I always wanted to ask people: “Are you in love? What are you reading?”
― Françoise Sagan, A Certain Smile

“La liberté de penser, et de mal penser et de penser peu, la liberté de choisir moi-même ma vie, de me choisir moi-même. Je ne peux dire ˝d´être moi-même˝, puisque je n´étais rien qu´une pâte modelable, mais celle de refuser les moules.”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other...It's something different... a sense of loss...”
― Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

“Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an

“It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter.”
― Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an

“He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.”
― Francoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse

“She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...”
― Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an