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
girl rocks world
Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.
husband women spring
A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.
punctuation-marks humans sentences
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
real war hate
Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.
country wells ifs
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
men voice want
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
war men brave
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
business taken cutting
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
real moving leader
Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.
years fifty able
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
lying jockeys misfortunes
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
beautiful witty money
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
eye looks spirit
The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
war men rights
During war we imprison the rights of man.