Nicolas Chamfort

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.