Jean Anouilh Quotes

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

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

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

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of 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.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does 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.

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

To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

Love is above all else the gift of oneself.

Love is above all the gift of oneself.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

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

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.