Jean Giraudoux Quotes

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

~ Jean Giraudoux

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

~ Jean Giraudoux

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.

~ Jean Giraudoux

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

~ Jean Giraudoux

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

~ Jean Giraudoux

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

~ Jean Giraudoux

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

~ Jean Giraudoux

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

~ Jean Giraudoux

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

~ Jean Giraudoux

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

~ Jean Giraudoux

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

~ Jean Giraudoux

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

~ Jean Giraudoux

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

~ Jean Giraudoux

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

~ Jean Giraudoux

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

~ Jean Giraudoux

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

~ Jean Giraudoux

The secret of success is sincerity.

~ Jean Giraudoux