Jean Giraudoux Quotes

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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
• 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…
• If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it…
• 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…
• A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
• Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
• A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
• 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…
• You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• There are truths which can kill a nation.
• Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion,...
• Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!
• Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?
• As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
• The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a…
• 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,…
• A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

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