Jean Anouilh Quotes

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

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

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

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

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

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

"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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I like reality. It tastes like bread."

"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."

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

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

"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."