113 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.

Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving – and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy’s only success-the night.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don’t believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering – at least half! All women!