Sacha Guitry Quotes

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

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

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

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

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#6. 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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#7. Look after your wife; never mind yourself
she'll look after you.

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

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

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

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

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

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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so

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

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

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

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

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#20. Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

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

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

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

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

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

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#27. The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

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