Jean Anouilh famous quotes

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Love #Relationship #Giving

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Life #Being Yourself #Acceptance

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Real #Creativity #Men

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
-- Jean Anouilh

#Men #Garden #Littles

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Fake People #Inspiration #Giving

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
-- Jean Anouilh

#God #Devil #Tricks

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Atheist #Powerful #Men

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Men #Sight #Ugly

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Tragedy #Deceit #Reason

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Life #Children #Garden

I like reality. It tastes like bread.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Reality #Taste #Bread

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Actors

Things are beautiful if you love them.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Love #Beauty #Beautiful

What you get free costs too much.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Life #Success #Cost

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Love #Lost Love #Love Is

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.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Moving #Hands #Snakes

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.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Life #Mean #Hands

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Life

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Life #Simple #Thinking

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Art #Mistake #Believe

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Names #Ideas #Innocence

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
-- Jean Anouilh

#Fear #Men #Frightened

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Fighting #Men #Order

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
-- Jean Anouilh

#Fun #Long #Would Be

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Voice #Tragedy #Complaining

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.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Mind #Magic #Genius

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Dog #Lost

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Money #Matter #Enough

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Tragedy #Flawless

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Being Human #Accepting #Plus

Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe"  chera d'e"  tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Dog #Auras #Lost

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Greatest Love #Ruins #Plus

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Sweet #Children #Silly

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Giving Up #Years #Wife

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Dog #Eye #World

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Wife #Patriot

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Found #Term #Complaints

One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Worry #Inheritance #Earth

Saintliness is also a temptation.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Temptation

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.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Book #Reality #Life Is

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes
-- Jean Anouilh

#Lying #Hero #Two

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Beauty #Doubt

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Believe #Men #Ideas

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Acceptance #Men #Facts

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Courage #Men

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Carpe Diem #Law #Political

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Love Is #Happy Love #Quarrels

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Past #Age #Half

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Strength #Grief #World

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Order #Leaving #Way

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
-- Jean Anouilh

#House #Poison #Ships

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Greatness #Certain

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
-- Jean Anouilh

#Inheritance #Fabulous #Murder

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Morality #Immorality

Nothing is irreparable in politics.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Politics #Irreparable

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Love #Real #Enemy

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Writing #Talent

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Life #Art #Nice

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Way #France #Dinner

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Peace #Army #Analysis

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me
-- Jean Anouilh

#Waiting #Bothered

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Genius #Obvious #Understood

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Beautiful #Death #Giving

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Death #Heart #Waiting

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Unsaid

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Beauty #Real #If There Is A God

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Love #People #Want

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Inspiration #Self #Hoaxes

The object of art is to give life shape.
-- Jean Anouilh

#Art #Giving #Shapes

The true masters of the art of living are already happy...
-- Jean Anouilh

#Gratitude #Art #Masters