113 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman’s mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

It’s odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you’ve got to antagonise her.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one’s country?

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn’t make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it’s a hero who is running away.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that’s the greatest human happiness.

The man who discovers a woman’s weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

There’s a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world’s mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

The secret of success is sincerity.