Quotes by Jean Anouilh

“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”

“Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as theyre old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that its enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.”

“One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”

“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”

“Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.”

“Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.”

“With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether its not just a trick of the devil.”

“It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.”

“We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down”

“The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.”

“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.”

“Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.”

“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.”

“Things are beautiful if you love them.”

“Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.”

“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence”

“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.”

“An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.”

“Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”

“All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.”