Georges Courteline Quotations

It is very hard to be in love with someone who no longer loves you, but it is far worse to be loved by someone with whom you are no longer in love.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.