Marcel Achard Quotes

France, Playwright
July 5, 1988 – September, 4, 1974.

Marcel Achard (5 July 1899 – 4 September 1974) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie française in 1959.

Also known as Screenwriter

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
- Home
- Marriage
- Risk
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Marcel Achard
- Men
- Women
- Listening

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

Marcel Achard
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
- Money
- Career
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
- People