Jean Giraudoux Quotes

I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that the...

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

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

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted...

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

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

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a...

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most eff...

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

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

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

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

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

The secret of success is sincerity.

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

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I...

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

Only the mediocre are always at their best.