Charles Trenet quotes

“One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.”
-- Charles Trenet

#Laughing Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.”

“It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.”

Source : "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.

“I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.”

“Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.”

“Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.174, U of Nebraska Press

“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

Source : Alain Badiou (2005). “Metapolitics”, p.7, Verso

“Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”

“Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.”

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

Source : Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc