Jean Giraudoux quotes

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The secret of success is sincerity.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.