113 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

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    I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

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    There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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    There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

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    Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

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    As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

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