Quotes from Jean Anouilh

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

What you get free costs too much.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.