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
believe men half
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
afternoon world sensible
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.
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.
mean play soul
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
women winning clothes
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.
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.