113 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

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

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

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.

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.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

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.

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

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