Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Marcel Achard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French playwright Marcel Achard.

Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie française in 1959.

French - Playwright | July 5, 1899 - September 4, 1974

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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Achard

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Marcel Achard

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Marcel Achard

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Marcel Achard

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Marcel Achard

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

Marcel Achard

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

Marcel Achard

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Marcel Achard

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Marcel Achard

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