111 Quotes by Jean Rostand

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god