"The older we women grow, the more clearly……" — Jean Giraudoux
"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."
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Jean Giraudoux
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67 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux has 67 quotes on this site.
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell…
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If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month,…
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that…
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A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even…
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Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and…
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never…
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The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a…
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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel…
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Least doers are the greatest boasters.
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned…
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Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words…
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And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate…
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But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers…
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For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural…
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