Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Francoise Sagan - Page 2

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

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.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

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, happy spontaneity.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

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 confirm that he hasn't any brothers.

I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.

The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.

No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

One partner is always more in love than the other.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

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.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.