Boris Vian Quotes

I'm not interested in the happiness of all men, but only in the happiness of each.

Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

People don't change. Things do.

Humor is the politeness of despair.

Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.

Procrastination is a prelude in a minor key.

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.