Jean Anouilh Quotes

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• Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, Relationship, Giving

  ArdŠle(1949) p. 79

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• God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

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  Peace, Army, Analysis

  L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) p. 120

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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

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  Fighting, Men, Order

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• Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

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  Life, Being Yourself, Acceptance

  "Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can".

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• Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

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  Life, Simple, Thinking

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• All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

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  Names, Ideas, Innocence

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

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  Carpe Diem, Law, Political

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• What you get free costs too much.

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  Life, Success, Cost

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The object of art is to give life shape.

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  Art, Giving, Shapes

  Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

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• However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

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  Dog, Eye, World

  Jean Anouilh (1966). “The Collected Plays [Jean Anouilh]”, London : Methuen, 1966- .

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• Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

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  Real, Creativity, Men

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• A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

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  Actors, Good Actors

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• Things are beautiful if you love them.

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  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh ... plays”

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• An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

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  Fear, Men, Sight

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• To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

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  Life, Mean, Hands

  Jean Anouilh “Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”

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• Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

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  Fake People, Inspiration, Giving

  Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”

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• I like reality. It tastes like bread.

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  Reality, Taste, Bread

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• Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

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  Moving, Hands, Snakes

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

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  Men, Garden, Littles

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

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  Life, Children, Garden

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

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  Hype, Tragedy, Deceit

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

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  God, Devil, Tricks

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• Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

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  Atheist, Powerful, Men

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

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  Love, Enemy, Courses

  ArdŠle(1949) p. 8

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• One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

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  Strength, Sympathy, Grief

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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