Quotes by Francoise Sagan

About Francoise Sagan:

Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse (1954) – which was written when she was a teenager.
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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Francoise Sagan

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Francoise Sagan
Jealousy quotes by Francoise Sagan, UberQuotes

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Francoise Sagan

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. 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

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

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Francoise Sagan

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

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Francoise Sagan

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

After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

Francoise Sagan

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

Francoise Sagan

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

Francoise Sagan

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

Francoise Sagan

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

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

Francoise Sagan

Amar no es solo “querer”, es sobre todo comprender.

Francoise Sagan

Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

Francoise Sagan

Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

Francoise Sagan

Cum, cine sunt? Sunt eu, traiesc; si traiesc asta, si merg cu 90 de kilometri pe ora in localitate, cu 110 pe drumurile nationale, cu 130 pe autostrazi, cu 600 pe ora in capul meu, cu 3 pe ora in corpul meu, conform tuturor legilor jandarmeriei rutie...

Francoise Sagan

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

Francoise Sagan

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francoise Sagan

Author Bio

  • NameFrancoise Sagan
  • DescriptionFrench author (1935-2004)
  • AliasesFrançoise Quoirez
  • BornJune 21, 1935
  • DiedSeptember 24, 2004
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Novelist; Screenwriter
  • AwardsPrince Pierre Foundation