Jean Anouilh Quotes

French - Playwright June 23, 1910 - October 3, 1987

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.

Snake Hands Long Way

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

You Past Half Seventy

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Love Beauty Beautiful You Things

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

Courage Intelligence Men Create

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

Life Our Accepting Ourselves

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Love Gift Love Is Oneself Above

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Work Power Mind You

Every man thinks god is on his side.

God Man Side Every Man

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

Life Path Gardening Walk

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Life Way Leaving Things

Top 10
Jean Anouilh
Quotes

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

Hope Tragedy Reason Part

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Courage Greatness Certain Base

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

Only Immorality

What you get free costs too much.

You Independence Free Too Much

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Genius Without Being Understood

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Life Love Love Is You

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

Talent Like Open Must

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

Love Good Never Good Actor

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Men Evil Fat Die

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.

Life Death You Saying

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Fear Man Ugly Sight

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Beauty God Doubt Things

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

Inspiration Give Importance Poets

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

Day Death Man Courage

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

God Devil Never Just

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

Life Love Enemy Then

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