Jean Anouilh Quotes

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The object of art is to give life shape.

What you get free costs too much.

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

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

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

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

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

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

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.

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

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.