Jean Anouilh Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past ... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
God is on everyone's side ... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?