Jean Giraudoux Quotes

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

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.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

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.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

The secret of success is sincerity.

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.