"Who would prefer peace to the glory of……" — Jean Giraudoux
"Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?"
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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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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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