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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.
— Jean Giraudoux
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
— Jean Giraudoux
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
— Jean Giraudoux
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
— Jean Giraudoux
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
— Jean Giraudoux
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
— Jean Giraudoux
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.
— Jean Giraudoux
Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.
— Jean Giraudoux
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
— Jean Giraudoux
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
— Jean Giraudoux
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
— Jean Giraudoux
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
— Jean Giraudoux
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
— Jean Giraudoux
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
— Jean Giraudoux
Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.
— Jean Giraudoux
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
— Jean Giraudoux
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
— Jean Giraudoux
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
— Jean Giraudoux
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
— 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?
— Jean Giraudoux
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
— Jean Giraudoux
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
— Jean Giraudoux
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
— Jean Giraudoux
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
— Jean Giraudoux
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
— Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
— Jean Giraudoux
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
— Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity.
— Jean Giraudoux
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
— Jean Giraudoux
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
— Jean Giraudoux
During war we imprison the rights of man.
— Jean Giraudoux
When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
— Jean Giraudoux
It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.
— Jean Giraudoux
There are truths which can kill a nation.
— Jean Giraudoux
The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
— Jean Giraudoux
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering - at least half! All women!
— Jean Giraudoux
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
— Jean Giraudoux
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
— Jean Giraudoux
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
— Jean Giraudoux
Close your eyes, all you see is yours.
— Jean Giraudoux
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
— Jean Giraudoux
If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.
— Jean Giraudoux
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
— Jean Giraudoux
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
— Jean Giraudoux
There are no great people. There are only great topics.
— Jean Giraudoux
