Jean Giraudoux Quotes

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• Only the mediocre are always at their best.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mediocrity

  Jean Giraudoux (2002). “Choice of the Elect”

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• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Business, Taken, Cutting

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.32, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• 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

  Exercise, Law, Imagination

  La Guerre de Troie N'Aura pas Lieu act 2, sc. 4 (1935)

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• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Funny, Trust, Betrayal

  "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.

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• All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Later In Life, Evil

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• I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Order, Games

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Afternoon, World, Sensible

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

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• Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

  Jean Giraudoux

  Believe, Men, Half

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• Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Destiny, Each Day, Logic

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Privilege, Witness, Catastrophe

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Life, Two, Years

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

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• Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspirational, Marriage, Husband

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Close your eyes, all you see is yours.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Eye

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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Class, Names

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Pain, Giving

  Jean Giraudoux (1962). “Jean Giraudoux: FOUR PLAYS, ADAPTED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE VALENCY”

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• 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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Loneliness, Love You

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• There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Love, Heart, Men

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Spring, Men, Weakness

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Miracle, Sides, Logic

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• Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Punctuation Marks, Sentences, Humans

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Men, Paper

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