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
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
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.
Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
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.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.