Jean Giraudoux Quotes
"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Education, Wisdom)
"As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: War, Poets, Will)
"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Woman, Years)
"A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Being, Forget, Man)
"A 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."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Golf, Space, Universe)
"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: War, Falsehood)
"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Heart, Man)
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Life, Poetry, Example)
"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
- Jean Giraudoux
"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Catastrophes)
"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: People, Waiting)
"There 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."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Imagination, Nature, Truth, Law, Study)
"When 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."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Woman)
"There 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."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: People, Years)
"The secret of success is sincerity."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Success, Sincerity)
"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Smile)
"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Men, Women)
"We 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."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Nature, Imagination, Truth, Law, Schools)
"I 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."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Discipline, Management, Order, World)
"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."
- Jean Giraudoux
(Related: Life, Death, Order, Play)