Jean Giraudoux
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
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
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
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
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
— Jean Giraudoux
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
— Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
— Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity.
— Jean Giraudoux