Sacha Guitry Quotes

Sacha Guitry delivers witty, sharp takes on love and cheating, ideal for a sly smile.

32 quotes

1. You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be funny.

2. He is a cuckold; that's why I cheated on him.

3. A woman who runs off with her lover does not abandon her husband; she rids him of an unfaithful wife.

4. When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

5. If women were good, God would have one.

6. The little I know, I owe it to my ignorance.

7. When you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart.

8. Women... Women are lovely, but dogs are so much more loyal.

9. Women speak until they have something to say.

10. If women knew how much we missed them, they would leave sooner.

11. A woman who runs off with her lover is not abandonning her husband: she is sparing him a disloyal wife.

12. I shall then live alone... and I already wonder with whom.

13. His death made him famous, he can come back now.

14. You're not rich because you have money, but because you spend it.

15. I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies' hands - after all, one must start somewhere.

16. He does not seem intelligent enough to be crazy.

17. The better I know men... the more I like dogs!

18. A murderer is a robber who got interrupted.

19. Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

20. I have my ignorance to thank for the few things I know.

21. What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

22. Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

23. I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

24. If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

25. Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.

26. The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

27. If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

28. Nothing is new, all is rehash.

29. The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

30. Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

31. With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

32. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.