Explore Quotes by Jean Rostand

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

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.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

To be adult is to be alone.

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

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

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

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

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

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Literature: proclaiming in front of everyone what one is careful to conceal from one's immediate circle

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.