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
loneliness love-you
Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.
spring men weakness
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.
love heart men
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
beauty beautiful fashion
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.
marriage wedding husband
An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
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.
destiny each-day logic
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
night worry democracy
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.
smile sympathy condolences
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
great
There are no great people. There are only great topics.
mass
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.