Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudouxwas a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth29 October 1882
CountryFrance
death dying horror
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
happiness pain giving
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
marriage wedding wife
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
business taken cutting
Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.
years fifty able
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
husband women spring
A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.
punctuation-marks humans sentences
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
country wells ifs
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
garden oil tree
Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?
stupid hands voice
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
people waiting odd
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
miracle sides logic
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.
country fruit corruption
Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.
destiny each-day logic
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.