Jean Anouilh
You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
What you get free costs too much.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
Saintliness is also a temptation.
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.
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.