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Quotes by Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

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 object of art is to give life a shape.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

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.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

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

Love is above all else the gift of oneself.

Love is above all the gift of oneself.

What you get free costs too much.

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.