Maurice Chevalier Quotes

France, Actor
September 12, 1888 – January, 1, 1972.

Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including his first American hit "Livin' In The Sunlight", "Valentine", "Louise", "Mimi", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and for his films, including The Love Parade, The Big Pond and Love Me Tonight. His trademark attire was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo.

Also known as Singer, Entertainer

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier
- Bad
- Age
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

Maurice Chevalier

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalier
- May
- Perfect
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Maurice Chevalier
- Experience
- True
The crime of loving is forgetting.

Maurice Chevalier
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Maurice Chevalier
- World
- Age
- Sad
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

Maurice Chevalier
- Stop
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier
- Men
- Women

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Maurice Chevalier
- Life
- Mysterious
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalier
- Girl
- Light
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Maurice Chevalier