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Letter "J" » Jean Giraudoux Quotes
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«Only the mediocre are always at their best.»
«Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.»
«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.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
admirer, admirers, handsome, handsomest, nowhere, staff, staffed, staffs
«The secret of success is sincerity.»
«A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Immortality
| Keywords:
immortal, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men
«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.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Poets
| Keywords:
freely, interpreted, interprets, lawyer, law school, schools
«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.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
dwell, epitome, get over, golf course, purely, transitory
«I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Game of Life, stake, The Game of Life
«Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
element, falsehood, in the air
«I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
interchangeable, interchangeable parts, modern world, safeguard, standardized, worker
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