Quotes By Jean Anouilh

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

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

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

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

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

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.

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

What you get free costs too much.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

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

Things are beautiful if you love them.

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

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

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

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

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

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

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

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

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

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

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.

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