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Marcel Achard

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Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.


— Marcel Achard


#mathematics #women #age

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.


— Marcel Achard


#listening #men #silent #think #women

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.


— Marcel Achard


#comes #early #even #greater #home

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.


— Marcel Achard


#courtship #made #never #only #politics

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.


— Marcel Achard


#comparable #easy #finally #first #later

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.


— Marcel Achard


#ear #find #give #i #i do






About Marcel Achard






Did you know about Marcel Achard?

The distinctive quality of Achard's plays was their dreamlike mood of sentimental melancholy underscored by the very titles which were primarily taken from popular bittersweet songs of the day. Nine years after that premiere however Patate which played to sold-out theaters in Paris could not translate its elusive charm to American audiences and repeated the seven-performance fiasco of the previous single-name character Domino. Domino adapted by actress-writer Grace George opened at the Playhouse Theatre on 16 August 1932 and closed after seven performances.

He was elected to the Académie française in 1959.

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