There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Love
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Bravery, Courage
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Fear, Anxiety, Worry
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy—and that is life.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Love
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Actors
Things are beautiful if you love them.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Beauty
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: God
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Sympathy
Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
—Jean Anouilh
Love is the gift of oneself.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Kindness
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Riches, Wealth
Effective action is always unjust.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Action
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you’re caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout—not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you’ve never said before. What perhaps you don’t even know till now.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Tragedy
True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Courage
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration?—a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Talent
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Fear
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy—common clay, if you like—eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can’t imagine dead. And then there are the others—the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Heroes/Heroism, Heroes, Heroism
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books—but it is terrible when one has to live it.
—Jean Anouilh
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Morals, Morality
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Intelligence
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It’s easy to say no, even if it means dying.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Courage, Attachment, Commitment, Dedication
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they’re old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it’s enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Men
Saintliness is also a temptation.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Saints, Temptation
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Propaganda, Weapon
Each of us has a day … when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Realization, Acceptance, Awareness
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Politics, Politicians
Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Life
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Fear
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Laws
What you get free costs too much.
—Jean Anouilh
Topics: Value
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