Jean Anouilh
40 quotes
Biography
"Things are beautiful if you love them."
"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."
"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."
"Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."
"Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empêchera d'être heureux."
"Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins drôle et c'est plus long."
"On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !"
"When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you."
"Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”"
"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."
"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."
"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."
"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path."
"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
"Nothing is irreparable in politics."
"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."
"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."
"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."
"What you get free costs too much."
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down."
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
"What you get free costs too much."