Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Marcel Pagnol

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Marcel Pagnol.

Last updated on October 6, 2024.

Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for the fact that he excelled in almost every medium—memoir, novel, drama and film.

French - Novelist | February 28, 1895 - April 18, 1974

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Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Marcel Pagnol

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Marcel Pagnol

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Marcel Pagnol

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

Marcel Pagnol

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

Marcel Pagnol

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

Marcel Pagnol

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Marcel Pagnol

I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die.

Marcel Pagnol

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

Marcel Pagnol

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

Marcel Pagnol