Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudouxwas a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth29 October 1882
CountryFrance
men radio he-man
When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
justice each-day layers
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.
stupid hands voice
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
men way demise
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
creatures
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
smile sympathy condolences
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
running war hero
In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.
beauty beautiful fashion
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.
people waiting odd
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
mean men paper
Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.
war rhyming impossible
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
country dying mud
Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?
names race suffering
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!
years people woven
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.