Top 15 Françoise Sagan Quotes

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

Edouard was trying to understand, to find out what he could have done to lose Beatrice's favor. He couldn't know that his unpardonable sin was the fact that he was too deserving.

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

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.

When a man has dreamed of winning something by a colossal stroke of luck, he is prone to neglect petty but more practical ways of attaining it.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...

I can say everything to you. It's a wonderful feeling. I never could tell Francoise that I don't really love her, that our marriage isn't based on any hones ideal. It's founded on my weariness and boredom. Although those are solid enough bases. Plenty of lasting marriages are build on them, God knows. At least, they're always present.

Jazz music is a form of accelerated unconcern.

We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Women believed in death. Without exception. It was part of their makeup. Whereas men refused to face up to it. Not only death, in fact, but life, too: a man, learning that his wife or girlfriend is pregnant, reacts like some beast of the field - "I can't believe it's true!" - while women look at the same situation as either happy news or a momentary inconvenience.