113 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.