"As soon as war is declared it will……" — Jean Giraudoux
"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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67 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux
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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…
- If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month,…
- I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that…
- A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even…
- 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…
- 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…
- The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a…
- There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel…