Attorney Quote by Jean Giraudoux

“You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.”

Jean Giraudoux

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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

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To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your…

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When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between…

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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk,…

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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

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A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

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The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow…

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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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I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's…

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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

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Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

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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 they are great brooding…

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