Best Jean Anouilh Quotes
- The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. Immorality
- Nothing is irreparable in politics. Inspirational
- It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me Bothered
- A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. Easily
- Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner. Affair
- An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. Afraid
- Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. Faucet
- Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path Down
- Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live… Book
- Saintliness is also a temptation. Funny
- Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. Deceit
- 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,… Bench
- 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… All
- What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating Excess
- I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. Love
- The true masters of the art of living are already happy... Already Happy
- The object of art is to give life shape. Art
- Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. Alone
- Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Fabricated
- 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… Bit
- Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that. Beauty
- 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
- God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man! Fear
- 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… All
- A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. Full