Jean Anouilh Quotes

"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."

"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself"

"I like reality. It tastes like bread."

"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."

"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

"When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past . . . And when you are seventy, nearly all of you."

"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."

"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."

"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence"

"Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes."

"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."

"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."

"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path."

"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down"

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

"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"

"All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them."

"What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating"