Sacha Guitry

Alexandre-Pierre Georges (Sacha) Guitry (21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) was a Russian-born French film actor, director, and screenwriter.

Quotes

Book of Humorous Quotations ed. Connie Robertson (1998) Page 83

• Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.

• You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

• The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

• When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.

• When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

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• He is a cuckold; that's why I cheated on him.

• A woman who runs off with her lover does not abandon her husband; she rids him of an unfaithful wife.

• If women were good, God would have one.

• When you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart.

• Women... Women are lovely, but dogs are so much more loyal.

• Women speak until they have something to say.

• If women knew how much we missed them, they would leave sooner.

• A woman who runs off with her lover is not abandonning her husband: she is sparing him a disloyal wife.

• I shall then live alone... and I already wonder with whom.

• His death made him famous, he can come back now.

• You're not rich because you have money, but because you spend it.

• I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing ladies’ hands – after all, one must start somewhere.

• He does not seem intelligent enough to be crazy.

• The better I know men... the more I like dogs!

• A murderer is a robber who got interrupted.