Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Prevert

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French poet Jacques Prevert.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). He published his first book in 1946.

French - Poet | February 4, 1900 - April 11, 1977

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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Jacques Prevert

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Jacques Prevert

Love is so simple.

Jacques Prevert

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

Jacques Prevert

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

All will be lost apart from happiness.

Jacques Prevert

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

Jacques Prevert

He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.

Jacques Prevert

Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

Jacques Prevert

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Jacques Prevert

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Prevert

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