113 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.