Quotes from Françoise Giroud

Bonheur: faire ce que l'on veut et vouloir ce que l'on fait

La télévision n'est pas le reflet de ceux qui la font, mais de ceux qui la regardent.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with myth

Creative artists are probably no more difficult to seduce than plumbers, the problem is meeting them.

The glorification of culture in all its manifestations was such that Vienna was probably the only city in the world where fathers rejoiced when their sons decided to devote their lives to music or literature.

Ce n'est pas la peine d'avoir du talent à la cinquième ligne si le lecteur ne dépasse pas la troisième.

A parlare di sé, c'è il rischio di non finire più. So bene di aver dimenticato questo, quello e quell'altro ancora. È importante? Difficile sapere cosa sia davvero importante. La cosa migliore è decidere che la terapia fatta sul passato finisce oggi, e che è venuto il momento di prendere un biglietto per il futuro.

Finally, Vienna was the only city in the world in which artists and intellectuals made no attempt to revolt against the bourgeois élite. On the contrary, they remained for a long time perfectly integrated with it. Together they formed a coherent and complete stratum of society in which everyone knew everyone else, and all were united in cultivating 'art for art's sake'.

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.