Jean Anouilh Quotes

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

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

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.

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

Love is above all the gift of oneself.

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

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

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

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

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

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

What you get free costs too much.

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

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

Love is above all else the gift of oneself.

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

I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!

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