Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Auguste Chevalierwas a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including "Louise", "Mimi", "Valentine", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and for his films, including The Love Parade and The Big Pond. His trademark attire was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth12 September 1888
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Maurice Chevalier quotes about
Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.
When you have done your best with what you know how to do best -- and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.
I know there is nothing to say to change my situation. I want to apologize to Laura's father and mother and sisters and especially to her daughter.
Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.
Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.
When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
The crime of loving is forgetting.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.