Jean Giraudoux Quotes

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

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

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.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

Close your eyes, all you see is yours.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

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

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

An 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.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

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

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.