Jean Giraudoux Quotes

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

Marriage, Women, Faithful

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

Women, Men, Half

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux

The secret of success is sincerity.
Jean Giraudoux

Success, Secret, Sincerity

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

Life, Death, Game

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

Nature, Life, Poetry

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux

Sympathy, Smile, Weep

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

Great, Witness, Privileges

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

Made, Around, Walk

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

Beautiful, Woman, She

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

Universe, Possible, Golf

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux

Forget, Earth, Immortal

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Jean Giraudoux

War, Impossible, Hold

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

Education, Wisdom, Stupid

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Jean Giraudoux

War, Live, Everyone

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

Woman, Able, Discover

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

Problem, Tell, Order

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
Jean Giraudoux

Waiting, Far, Less

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

Heart, Cannot, Elements

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

Nature, Truth, Law

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

Nature, Truth, Powerful

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 29, 1882

Died: January 31, 1944

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