Words matter. These are the best Jean Giraudoux Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
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.
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
I don’t like knowing about other people’s feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent’s hand. You are sure to lose.
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.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death’s deserters.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
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.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
The secret of success is sincerity.
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
