Jean Anouilh Quotes

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

~ Jean Anouilh

I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

~ Jean Anouilh

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

~ Jean Anouilh

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

The object of art is to give life a shape.

~ Jean Anouilh

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.

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much.

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much.

~ Jean Anouilh

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

~ Jean Anouilh

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

~ Jean Anouilh

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

~ Jean Anouilh