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
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.
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.
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.
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.
war men rights
During war we imprison the rights of man.
war air elements
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
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.
becomes gestures peace sing war
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
change grown man reaches
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
country dies men
It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.
freely imagination law lawyer nature poet powerful schools
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
discovery move
Not through discovery but through our fathomlessness do we move confidently through life.
great
There are no great people. There are only great topics.
mass
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.