The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

- Adrienne Monnier

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

- Adrienne Monnier

For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion…

- Adrienne Monnier

Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it …

- Adrienne Monnier

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

- Adrienne Monnier

It matters less to venerate things than to live with them on terms of good friendship.

- Adrienne Monnier

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

- Adrienne Monnier

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

- Adrienne Monnier

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can co…

- Adrienne Monnier