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.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Women
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
—Jean Giraudoux
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.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Men
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Morning, Light
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Water
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Education
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Defects, Mediocrity
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people…
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Habits, Habit
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Death
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.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Labor
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Immortality
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Flowers
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
—Jean Giraudoux
Topics: Golf
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