Jean Cocteau Famous Quotes
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."
The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness.
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like
Art is science made clear.
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them."
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau Quotations
"Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far."
Euripides
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Socrates
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
John Ruskin
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
"If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
John Dryden
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche