18 Quotes By Jean Giraudoux


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

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

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.
Jean Giraudoux on imagination

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux on imagination

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Jean Giraudoux on marriage

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
Jean Giraudoux on men

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux on nature

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

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux on smile

The secret of success is sincerity.
Jean Giraudoux on success

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux on sympathy

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

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

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

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux on grief

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

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux on success

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