Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”

“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.”

“The secret of success is sincerity.”

“A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal”

“We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

“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.”

“Im not afraid of death. Its the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”

“Everyone, when theres war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood”

“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.”

“Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.”

“Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.”

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him”

“Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage”

“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.”

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

“Not through discovery but through our fathomlessness do we move confidently through life.”

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I dont believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.