Quotes

In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.

George Antheil

You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

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.

Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Jean Anouilh

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.

Jean Anouilh

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.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Jean Anouilh

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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.

Jean Anouilh