Words matter. These are the best Jean Anouilh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Every man thinks god is on his side.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
God is on everyone’s side… and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
God is on everyone’s side… and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
What you get free costs too much.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
