19 Quotes by Georges Courteline

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.

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

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.

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.

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur’s delight.

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

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

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.

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