Marcel Pagnol Quotations

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be

Whenever I go to the dock and look at the horizon, I am on the other side. If I see a boat on the ocean, it pulls me like a cord . . . like a belt pulling my sides, and I don't know where I am, I cannot think of anything else. . .

My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.

One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb

I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die.