111 Quotes by Jean Rostand

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.