113 Quotes by Jean Anouilh

The object of art is to give life shape.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

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

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.