Jean Anouilh Famous Quotes
"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."
"Talent is like a faucet while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance."
"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying."
"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."
"God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."
"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."
"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."
Saintliness is also a temptation.
"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself."
Jean Anouilh Quotations
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Exploit or get exploited.
B J Gupta
"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love."
L O Baird
"It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
Plutarch
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"Frailty, thy name is woman"
William Shakespeare
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
Roger Babson
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
Unknown
"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone"
James Thurber