Jean Giraudoux Quotes

• Sólo los mediocres dan siempre lo mejor de sí mismos.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mediocrity

  Jean Giraudoux (2002). “Choice of the Elect”

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• La tristeza vuela en alas de la mañana, y del corazón de las tinieblas sale la luz.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Felicidad, corazón roto, angustia

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Business, Taken, Cutting

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.32, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Ejercicio, Derecho, Imaginación

  La Guerre de Troie N'Aura pas Lieu act 2, sc. 4 (1935)

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• Close your eyes, all you see is yours.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Ojo

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• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Funny, Trust, Betrayal

  "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.

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• I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Order, Games

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Todas las mujeres nacen malvadas. Algunas se dan cuenta de su potencial más tarde que otras.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Later In Life, Evil

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• One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Privilege, Witness, Catastrophe

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Afternoon, World, Sensible

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• Los hombres sólo deberían creer la mitad de lo que dicen las mujeres. Pero, ¿qué mitad?

  Jean Giraudoux

  Believe, Men, Half

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• If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Life, Two, Years

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspiración, Matrimonio, Marido

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Destiny, Each Day, Logic

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Pain, Giving

  Jean Giraudoux (1962). “Jean Giraudoux: FOUR PLAYS, ADAPTED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE VALENCY”

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• When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Naturaleza, Flor, Jardín

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Class, Names

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• En el amor nunca se llega a un acuerdo. La vida de una esposa y un esposo que se aman nunca está en reposo. Sea verdadero o falso, la parte del matrimonio es la misma: discordia elemental.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Matrimonio, Boda, Marido

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Loneliness, Love You

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• The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Spring, Men, Weakness

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Women, Winning, Clothes

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• There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Amor, Corazón, Hombres

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Air, Elements

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• Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Voice, Adults

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