Jean Giraudoux Quotes

• All evil comes from this fact: God is a man.

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• It is not wise to have either your gods or your vegetables too gilded.

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• Humanity is…a superhuman undertaking.

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• Plagiarism is the base of all literature except the first text which, however, is unknown.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• The secret of success is sincerity.

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• Only the mediocre are always at their best.

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

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• It’s odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

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Birth:	29th October, 1882
Death:	31st January, 1944
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Playwright

About

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France. He was a French playwright, novelist and diplomat. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. He wrote several novels include: Suzanne et le Pacifique, Siegfried et le Limousin, Lectures pour une ombre, Amica America, and Combat avec l'ange. He wrote several plays include: Siegfried, Amphitryon 38, Judith, The Enchanted, Tessa, The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, Electra, L'Impromptu de Paris, Song of Songs, Ondine, The Apollo of Bellac, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Duel of Angels.

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