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Authors
Jean Giraudoux
French
Dramatist
About the author
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Women
#Husbands
#Fidelity
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,
French
Dramatist
#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,
French
Dramatist
#Will
#War
#Poets
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,
French
Dramatist
#Years
#Woman
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Forget
#Being
#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,
French
Dramatist
#Golf
#Universe
#Space
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#War
#Falsehood
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Heart
#Man
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#Poetry
#Example
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Catastrophes
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#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,
French
Dramatist
#Study
#Law
#Imagination
#Truth
#Nature
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,
French
Dramatist
#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,
French
Dramatist
#People
#Years
The secret of success is sincerity.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Success
#Sincerity
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Smile
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#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,
French
Dramatist
#Law
#Imagination
#Truth
#Nature
#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,
French
Dramatist
#World
#Management
#Order
#Discipline
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux,
French
Dramatist
#Life
#Death
#Play
#Order