Jacques Prevert
Jacques Prevert
Jacques Prévertwas a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth4 February 1900
CountryFrance
trying example trying-to-be-happy
We should try to be happy, just to set an example
others people time
Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.
beauty art father
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
real police today
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
lost
All will be lost apart from happiness.
love years giving
Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.
love simple amour
Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]
sweet food night
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
coffee white tea
He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.
positive happiness happy
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.