Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh

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.
Jean Anouilh

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
Jean Anouilh

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Jean Anouilh

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

Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh

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.
Jean Anouilh

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Jean Anouilh

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much.
Jean Anouilh

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh

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