Deceitful Quote by Jean Anouilh Download Open image “Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.” — Jean Anouilh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceitful Foul Hope Reason Tragedy
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 with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share
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“As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a rogue wave overturning a boat on a calm day. Tragedy is never more than a breath away. We hide from its certainty and go about… — Logan Kain Copy Share
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
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… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
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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… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
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THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant “Goliath!” and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns. — Shannon L Alder Copy Share Image
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world. — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
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Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image