Georges Courteline
Dramatist
1858-06-25
Quotes by Georges Courteline
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If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.
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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.
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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.
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If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
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A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.
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Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
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It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
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