19 Quotes by Georges Courteline

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

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

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

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.

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

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

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

Wasting one's youth is better than doing nothing at all with it.

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.