Francoise Sagan
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan– real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse– which was written when she was a teenager...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth21 June 1935
CountryFrance
happiness jealousy laughter
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
positive
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
time thinking trying
I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
love-is cost
Love is worth whatever it costs.
laughter laughing
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
nice real saws
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
uplifting military pity
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
proust
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
expression people faces
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.
firefly people bangs
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.
partners
One partner is always more in love than the other.