Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilhwas a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 June 1910
CountryFrance
A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
The object of art is to give life shape.
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.
All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.