Sacha Guitry

Alexandre-Pierre Georges (Sacha) Guitry (21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) was a Russian-born French film actor, director, and screenwriter.

Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83

 * Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.


 * You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.


 * The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.


 * When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.
 * Usually erroneously attributed to Sir James Goldsmith, see The Daily Telegraph (London) in July 1997.
 * When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.