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
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
What you get free costs too much.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.