Jean Giraudoux's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Dramatist
Nation: French
Biography of Jean Giraudoux
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Tags: Faithful, Marriage, WomenI'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Tags: Death, Game, LifeThe flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Tags: Life, Nature, PoetryWhen you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
Tags: Beautiful, She, WomanOne of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Tags: Great, Privileges, WitnessThere is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
Tags: Eat, Invisible, WalkThere is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Tags: Law, Nature, TruthA golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
Tags: Golf, Possible, UniverseA man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Tags: Earth, Forget, ImmortalAs soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Tags: Hold, Impossible, WarEducation makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Tags: Education, Stupid, WisdomEveryone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Tags: Air, Everyone, WarI have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
Tags: Able, Discover, WomanIt's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
Tags: Far, Less, WaitingThere are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Tags: Cannot, Elements, HeartI tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
Tags: Order, Problem, TellWe all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Tags: Nature, Powerful, Truth