Quotes from Georges Courteline

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

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

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

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.

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.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

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

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

L'alcool tue lentement. On s'en fout. On n'est pas pressés.

Passer pour un idiot aux yeux d'un imbécile est une volupté de fin gourmet.

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

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

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.