113 Quotes by Jean Anouilh

In matters of money there’s no such thing as enough.

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn’t waiting for me.

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.

C’est plein de disputes, un bonheur.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It’s a great advance linguistically.

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

What will my happiness be like? What kind of happy woman will Antigone grow into? What base things will she have to do, day after day, in order to snatch her own little scrap of happiness? Tell me – who will she have to lie to? Smile at? Sell herself to? Who will she have to avert her eyes from, and leave to die?

Life’s not what you think. It’s like water – the young let it slip through their fingers without thinking. Shut your hands, Antigone, shut them tight and hold it back. You’ll see – it’ll turn into something small and hard that you can sit and munch in the sun.

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