Maurice Chevalier movie quotes

“Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.”
Maurice Chevalier

“The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.”
Maurice Chevalier

“Youth is the thing, Gaston. Youth. Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.”
Maurice Chevalier - Honoré Lachaille

“- Honore Lachaille: I have to tell you... your parents bore me to death.
- Gaston Lachaille: Me too.
- Honore Lachaille: But I've known them longer, so they've been boring me longer.”
Maurice Chevalier - Honoré Lachaille
Louis Jourdan - Gaston Lachaille

“This is the city - Paris, France. It is just like any other big city - London, New York, Tokyo - except for two little things. In Paris, people eat better. And in Paris, people make love - well, perhaps not better, but certainly more often. They do it any time, any place. On the left bank, on the right bank, and in between! They do it by day,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Maurice Chevalier - Claude Chavasse

“- Ariane Chavasse: Working on a new case?
- Claude Chavasse: A client from Brussels. His wife ran away to Paris with the chauffeur. I have to find them; the husband wants his car back.”
Audrey Hepburn - Ariane Chavasse
Maurice Chevalier - Claude Chavasse

“- Ariane Chavasse: Papa, you are a cynic!
- Claude Chavasse: I guess I am.
- Ariane Chavasse: You enjoy your work!
- Claude Chavasse: I guess I do.
- Ariane Chavasse: You'd enjoyed it even if you weren't paid for it!
- Claude Chavasse: I wouldn't go that far.”
Audrey Hepburn - Ariane Chavasse
Maurice Chevalier - Claude Chavasse

“You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.”
Maurice Chevalier

“The crime of loving is forgetting.”
Maurice Chevalier

“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

“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

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

“If I had my life to live all over again - and I would not want to - I would take love more seriously than I was taught to take it as a kid. I would not throw myself in every corner with any girl I meet. For the rest, I feel I've done the best I could, considering I was born to be a workingman.”
Maurice Chevalier

“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”
Maurice Chevalier

“I'm a soldier. My duty is to fight. I'm willing to die on every battlefield.”
Maurice Chevalier - Danilo

“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

“- Danilo: Are you pretty? Or beautiful?
- Sonia: Gorgeous.”
Maurice Chevalier - Danilo
Jeanette MacDonald - Sonia

“May our hearts remain as cool as this champagne.”
Maurice Chevalier - Danilo