Jean Giraudoux Quotes - Page 2

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

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

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.

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

To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

There are truths which can kill a nation.

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

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

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

During war we imprison the rights of man.