Maurice Chevalier Quotes

Maurice Chevalier shares witty musings on love, art and aging, inviting a light-hearted look at life's stages.

21 quotes

1. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

2. Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

3. If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved

4. Please excuse me if I get an erection. Pardon me if I don't.

5. Love the public the way you love your mother.

6. An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

7. The cinema is rather like a beautiful woman whom you would court only by telephone.

8. The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

9. A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

10. I prefer old age to the alternative.

11. It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

12. One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.

13. Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

14. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

15. When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

16. Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

17. Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

18. Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

19. A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

20. Aging isn't that bad if you consider the alternatives.

21. When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.