113 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

There are no great people. There are only great topics.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Not through discovery but through our fathomlessness do we move confidently through life.

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

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