Quotes from Marcel Pagnol

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.

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

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

Tell me what you laught at, and I'll tell you who you are.

In the solitary farmhouse of the hills there was a great joy in life, much tenderness, and much hope.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.