Jean Giraudoux

Jean Giraudoux

"The secret of success is sincerity."
18 Quotes
"The secret of success is sincerity."
Jean Giraudoux
"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
Jean Giraudoux
"If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song."
Jean Giraudoux
"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Jean Giraudoux
"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."
Jean Giraudoux
"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."
Jean Giraudoux
"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
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
"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
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
Jean Giraudoux
"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man."
Jean Giraudoux
"As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum."
Jean Giraudoux
"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
Jean Giraudoux
"I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing."
Jean Giraudoux
"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light."
Jean Giraudoux
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
Jean Giraudoux
"I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded."
Jean Giraudoux
"Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light."
Jean Giraudoux
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