Anouilh Quotes
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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.
— Jean Anouilh
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
— Jean Anouilh
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
— Jean Anouilh
Things are beautiful if you love them.
— Jean Anouilh
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
— Jean Anouilh
Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
— Jean Anouilh
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
— Jean Anouilh
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.
— Jean Anouilh
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
— Jean Anouilh
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
— Jean Anouilh
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past ... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
— Jean Anouilh
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
— Jean Anouilh
The true masters of the art of living are already happy ...
— Jean Anouilh
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
— Jean Anouilh
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
— Jean Anouilh
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.
— Jean Anouilh
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
— Jean Anouilh
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. Jean Anouilh, French dramatist and playwright
— George Washington
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
— Jean Anouilh
God is on everyone's side ... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
— Jean Anouilh
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
— Jean Anouilh
Saintliness is also a temptation.
— Jean Anouilh
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
— Jean Anouilh
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
— Jean Anouilh
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
— Jean Anouilh
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
— Jean Anouilh
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
— Jean Anouilh
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
— Jean Anouilh
The object of art is to give life shape.
— Jean Anouilh
A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
— Jean Anouilh
What you get free costs too much.
— Jean Anouilh
Every man thinks god is on his side.
— Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
— Jean Anouilh
However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
— Jean Anouilh
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
— Jean Anouilh
