Meaning of the quote

The quote means that forgetting about the people you love is a type of 'crime' or wrongdoing. When you love someone, you should always remember them and not forget how much they mean to you. Forgetting the people you love is like a crime against that love.

About Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Chevalier was a legendary French singer, actor, and entertainer known for his signature songs like “Livin’ In The Sunlight” and “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” as well as his starring roles in classic Hollywood films. He was a true icon of the entertainment industry, captivating audiences with his charming performances and signature tuxedo and boater hat look.

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More quotes from Maurice Chevalier

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

Maurice Chevalier

French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888-1972)