Explore Quotes by Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

The object of art is to give life shape.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me