Quotes from Jean Giraudoux

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

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!

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

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

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.