Jean Anouilh Quotes

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

  • 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.

    Art   Mistake   Believe  
    Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”
  • 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.

    Death   Heart   Waiting  
    Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

    Courage   Men   Funeral  
  • What you get free costs too much.

    Life   Success   Cost  
    Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

    Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”
  • Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

    Real   Creativity   Men  
  • In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

    Love Is   Effort   Gone  
    Jean Anouilh (1959). “Ardèle: and Colombe : two plays”
  • Saintliness is also a temptation.

  • 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.

    Life   Children   Garden  
    Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”
  • Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

  • Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

    Atheist   Powerful   Men  
    Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.30, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

    Peace   Army   Analysis  
    L'Alouette (The Lark, 1953) p. 120
  • 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.

    1944 Antigone.
  • 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.

    Magic   Mind   Genius  
  • Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

    Writing   Talent  
    Jean Anouilh (1960). “Becket or the Honor of God”
  • In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

    Money   Matter   Enough  
    Jean Anouilh (1967). “Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can”
  • Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

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

    Fun   Long   Would Be  
    Jean Anouilh (1952). “Ring Round the Moon”, p.40, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

    Unsaid  
  • Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

    Beauty   God   Autumn  
    "Becket". Play by Jean Anouilh, Act 1, 1959.
  • 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.

    Life   Mean   Hands  
    Jean Anouilh “Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”
  • A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

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

    Paris   Dinner   Way  
    Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”
  • When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

    Past   Age   Half  
    Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh ... plays”
  • Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

    Jean Anouilh (1958). “... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”
  • Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

  • All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

    Sweet   Children   Silly  
    Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”
  • 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 (1991). “The rehearsal or Love punished”, Methuen
  • The object of art is to give life shape.

    Art   Giving   Shapes  
    Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”
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