Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilhwas a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 June 1910
CountryFrance
Jean Anouilh quotes about
Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.
Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.