Quotes from Maurice Dekobra

The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

My dear friend, there are two things in this world about which no one can be sure: whether or not one is being deceived by a woman and whether or not a Communist is sincere.

you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form a nation, they become unbearable.

Living is such an absurd occupation.

Is not our entire life a waiting-room where we fidget about until the arrival of the train which takes us to the Great Beyond?