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
women sky mind
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.
heart self light
All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.
golf space epitome
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
believe brooding agnosticism
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.
regret responsibility light
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.
inspirational marriage husband
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
war air elements
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
privilege witness catastrophe
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
love heart men
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
war atmosphere would-be
There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.
men class names
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
spring men weakness
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
loneliness love-you
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.
eye
Close your eyes, all you see is yours.