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

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

Marcel Achard
- Men
- Women
- Listening
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