146 Quotes by Françoise Sagan

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

no one talks about money more than people who have too much of it ...

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

What you call types of mind are only mental ages.

The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ...

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

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.