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Jean Giraudoux (Writer)

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
— Jean Giraudoux art
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
— Jean Giraudoux best
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
— Jean Giraudoux life
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
— Jean Giraudoux death
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 truth
The secret of success is sincerity.
— Jean Giraudoux success
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
— Jean Giraudoux women
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 man
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
— Jean Giraudoux art
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
— Jean Giraudoux women
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
— Jean Giraudoux life
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 man
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
— Jean Giraudoux smile
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
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 people
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
— Jean Giraudoux race
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
— Jean Giraudoux war
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
— Jean Giraudoux people
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
— Jean Giraudoux art
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
Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.
— Jean Giraudoux love
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 art
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 love
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 wisdom
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
— Jean Giraudoux language
Vous êtes avocat! Vous avez le devoir au contraire de recourir à toutes les ruses pour défendre vos clients. Au mensonge. A la calomnie.Translation: Youre an attorney! Its your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. The Madwoman of Chaillot, Act II
— Jean Giraudoux men

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