Quotes By Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much.

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.

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.

Every man thinks god is on his side.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

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

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

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

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, 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.

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.