Jean Giraudoux Quotes
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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.
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Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
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Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.
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Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
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All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.
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Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.
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To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
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Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.
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The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
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The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
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The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.
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Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
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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.
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When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
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As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.
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Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
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Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
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When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
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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.
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
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An 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.
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To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
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To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.
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