328 Quotes by Jean Cocteau

Paris, however – because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become a part of her, because of her entanglement of buildings and tenements – Paris yields herself in discovery as an attic beloved in our childhood gave up its secrets.

I grant you that, if you’ll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates our actions and compels us to speak this language.

Don’t for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.

There’s no such thing as love; only proof of love.

Listen very carefully to the first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that the reviewers don’t like; it may be the only thing in your work that is original and worthwhile.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.

I am neither cheerful nor sad. But i can be completely the one or completely the other to excess.

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love.

Vivre est une chute horizontale.