Top 100 Francoise Quotes
#1. There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
Carly Simon
#2. Autonomy is something fundamental that your child needs. (Francoise Dolto said that by age six, a child should be able to do everything at home that concerns him.)
Pamela Druckerman
#3. I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
Jackie DeShannon
#4. The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.
Adrian Tomine
#7. He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.
Francoise Sagan
#8. I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
Francoise Sagan
#9. Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
Francoise Sagan
#11. Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
Francoise Sagan
#12. You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.
Francoise Mouly
#13. We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.
Francoise Sagan
#15. If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career
Francoise Hardy
#16. Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
Francoise Sagan
#17. Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.
Francoise Sagan
#19. The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.
Francoise Sagan
#20. Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
Francoise Sagan
#21. I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.
Francoise Gilot
#23. Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
Francoise Sagan
#24. He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
Francoise Sagan
#25. I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.
Francoise Sagan
#26. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan
#28. The image by Barry Blitt of Barack Obama and Michelle in the White House with him dressed as a terrorist, her dressed as an Angela Davis character, a flag burning in the chimney, a portrait of Bin Laden on the wall is an image I'm extremely proud of.
Francoise Mouly
#29. Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
Francoise Sagan
#30. Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.
Francoise Sagan
#31. Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.
Francoise Meltzer
#32. I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.
Francoise Gilot
#33. 'Matisse and Picasso' is a little like Plato after Socrates. Socrates only taught in words. He didn't write. And after that, you had Plato and Aristotle to write about what he had said. I write about them because they didn't write about them.
Francoise Gilot
#34. Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
Francoise Giroud
#35. It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
Francoise Sagan
#36. When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
Francoise Sagan
#38. Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
Francoise Sagan
#40. Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan
#41. I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.
Francoise Hardy
#42. ...replying with a smile to the silent question asked by all small babies: "Who on earth are you?
Francoise Heritier
#43. If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
Francoise Sagan
#44. Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
Francoise Sagan
#46. After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Francoise Sagan
#47. If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
Francoise Sagan
#48. Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.
Francoise Gilot
#49. Happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
Francoise Sagan
#50. I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
Francoise Sagan
#51. Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.
Francoise Sagan
#53. I realised that procrastination can rule our lives, yet not provide us with any arguments in its defence.
Francoise Sagan
#54. He had always known that he was the lover and she was the object of love.
Francoise Sagan
#55. Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.
Francoise Giroud
#56. My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
Francoise Sagan
#58. No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
Francoise Sagan
#59. When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.
Francoise Hardy
#60. We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.
Francoise Sagan
#61. There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
Francoise Sagan
#63. The number of times she'd said "wait and see" to herself in her thirty years of existence was way beyond counting.
Francoise Sagan
#64. To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.
Francoise Gilot
#65. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan
#66. No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it ...
Francoise Sagan
#67. The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.
Francoise Mauriac
#68. Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.
Francoise Giroud
#69. She wasn't a courtesan, nor an intellectual, nor the mother of a family - she was nothing at all. And
Francoise Sagan
#70. Her utter lack of self-importance made her passionate. In a word, she was happy.
Francoise Sagan
#71. There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
Francoise Sagan
#72. She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.
Francoise Sagan
#73. For unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Francoise Sagan
#76. At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
Francoise Sagan
#78. The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Francoise Sagan
#79. The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ...
Francoise Sagan
#80. We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.
Francoise Sagan
#82. In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to England, I had another image. I felt the journalists were much more interested in my looks than in my songs.
Francoise Hardy
#83. For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
Francoise Sagan
#84. Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends
that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man.
Francoise Mallet-Joris
#85. No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.
Francoise Sagan
#86. Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.
Francoise Sagan
#87. You have to admit that most women who do something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.
Francoise Gilot
#88. Thirty-year-old children who refused to act like grown-ups.
Francoise Sagan
#90. Really, one has some friends, and when one comes to think about it it is impossible to tell how one ever became friendly with them.
Francoise Mallet-Joris
#91. It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
Francoise Sagan
#92. Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it ... myself included.
Pablo Picasso
#93. Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.
Francoise Mouly
#94. Since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.
Francoise Gilot
#95. For with the complete disappearance of my boredom, to which I had not dared to give a name, I had changed for the better.
Francoise Sagan
#96. I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
Francoise Sagan
#97. I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
Francoise Sagan
#98. I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book ... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
Francoise Hardy
#99. For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze.
Francoise Gilot
#100. She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants ...
Francoise Sagan
