Jean Anouilh Quotes
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Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.
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Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
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Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
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What you get free costs too much.
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
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In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Saintliness is also a temptation.
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Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
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Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
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Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
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God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
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Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
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Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
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A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
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Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
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The object of art is to give life shape.
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