Quotes By Jean Rostand
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
Jean Rostand
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
Jean Rostand
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
Jean Rostand
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.
Jean Rostand
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Jean Rostand
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Jean Rostand
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
Jean Rostand
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand