Quotes from Jean Giraudoux

ISABELLE Je viendrai... Je viendrai... Mais je n'ai pas le sentiment que je serai particulièrement forte et volontaire, une fois disparue. Je sens très bien au contraire que ce qui me plaira dans la mort, c'est la paresses de la mort, c'est cette fluidité un peu dense te engourdie de la mort, que fait qu'en somme, il n'y a pas des morts, mais uniquement des noyés...

In wartime 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.

Med mindre Frøkenen har oppfunnet en tirsdag som faller på en mandag, kan jeg ikke hjelpe henne.

Jeg trekker meg tilbake til en verden der styggheten eksisterer.

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

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

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

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

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.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

The secret of success is sincerity.

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

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.

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

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.

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

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

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.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.