Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Sacha Guitry

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French director Sacha Guitry.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout his career. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932.

French - Director | February 21, 1885 - July 24, 1957

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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

Sacha Guitry

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

Sacha Guitry

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

Sacha Guitry

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Sacha Guitry

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

Sacha Guitry

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

Sacha Guitry

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Sacha Guitry

Look after your wife; never mind yourself--she'll look after you.

Sacha Guitry

One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.

Sacha Guitry

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

Sacha Guitry

Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer.

Sacha Guitry

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

Sacha Guitry

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

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Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

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The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

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There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

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I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

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I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

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Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so

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With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

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Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

Sacha Guitry

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

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