Jean Giraudoux
Dramatist
1882-10-29
Quotes by Jean Giraudoux
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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.
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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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The secret of success is sincerity.
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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.
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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
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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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Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.
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In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.
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Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.
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Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
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Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.
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Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
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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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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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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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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded.
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The privilege of the great is to see catastrophes from a terrace.
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In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
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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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