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Top 25 Peter Mayle Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Mayle Quote: “Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.”

1. “Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “Best advice I’ve ever received: Finish.”

2. “Best advice I’ve ever received: Finish.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “I’d rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else’s.”

3. “I’d rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else’s.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.”

4. “Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.”

5. “Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.”

6. “The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.”

7. “Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.”

8. “No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “We had a crisp, oily salad and slices of pink country sausages, an aioli of snails and cod and hard-boiled eggs with garlic mayonnaise, creamy cheese from Fontvielle, and a homemade tart. It was the kind of meal that the French take for granted and tourists remember for years.”

9. “We had a crisp, oily salad and slices of pink country sausages, an aioli of snails and cod and hard-boiled eggs with garlic mayonnaise, creamy cheese from Fontvielle, and a homemade tart. It was the kind of meal that the French take for granted and tourists remember for years.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “La Closerie, in Ansouis.”

10. “La Closerie, in Ansouis.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.”

11. “The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.”

12. “Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.”

13. “I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “The kitchen garden satisfies both requirements, a thing 0f beauty and a joy for dinner.”

14. “The kitchen garden satisfies both requirements, a thing 0f beauty and a joy for dinner.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.”

15. “A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “If I live to be sixteen, I shall never fully understand the rich complexities of human nature. Not sure that I want to, either. It would be a lifetime’s work, and brooding over the mysteries of existence is bad for your health. Look what happens to philosophers. Most of them end up barking mad, taking to the bottle, or becoming professors of existentialism at obscure universities.”

16. “If I live to be sixteen, I shall never fully understand the rich complexities of human nature. Not sure that I want to, either. It would be a lifetime’s work, and brooding over the mysteries of existence is bad for your health. Look what happens to philosophers. Most of them end up barking mad, taking to the bottle, or becoming professors of existentialism at obscure universities.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “The people of Provence greeted spring with uncharacteristic briskness, as if nature had given everyone an injection of sap.”

17. “The people of Provence greeted spring with uncharacteristic briskness, as if nature had given everyone an injection of sap.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.”

18. “I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.”

19. “The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “They always asked wistfully what the weather was like, and were not pleased with the answer. They consoled themselves by warning me about skin cancer and the addling effecr of sun on the brain. I didn’t argue with them; they were probably right. But addled, wrinkled and potentially cancerous as I might have been, I had never felt better.”

20. “They always asked wistfully what the weather was like, and were not pleased with the answer. They consoled themselves by warning me about skin cancer and the addling effecr of sun on the brain. I didn’t argue with them; they were probably right. But addled, wrinkled and potentially cancerous as I might have been, I had never felt better.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy – a remarkable achievment for two short words.”

21. “Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy – a remarkable achievment for two short words.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it’s dangerous.”

22. “It was exciting at first... Then it became routine. I guess everything does, even if it’s dangerous.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “You don’t like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.”

23. “You don’t like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “What a marvelous sunset,′ she said. ‘Yes,’ replied her husband. ‘Most impressive for such a small village.”

24. “What a marvelous sunset,′ she said. ‘Yes,’ replied her husband. ‘Most impressive for such a small village.”

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Peter Mayle Quote: “Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company. Instead, the impression should be that one is heading into the cafe to make a phone call to one’s titled Italian admirer, when – quelle surprise! – one sees a friend. The sunglasses can then be removed and the hair tossed while one is persuaded to sit down.”

25. “Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company. Instead, the impression should be that one is heading into the cafe to make a phone call to one’s titled Italian admirer, when – quelle surprise! – one sees a friend. The sunglasses can then be removed and the hair tossed while one is persuaded to sit down.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided – after weeks or months or sometimes years – that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.”

26. “The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided – after weeks or months or sometimes years – that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.”

— Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle Quote: “Very little happens in my books.”

27. “Very little happens in my books.”

— Peter Mayle

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