Explore Quotes by Jean Anouilh

Every man thinks god is on his side.

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.