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
freely imagination law lawyer nature poet powerful schools
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
flower blossoming example
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
death order games
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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.
privilege witness catastrophe
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
women winning clothes
To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.
creatures
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
names race suffering
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!
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.
years people woven
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
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.
death dying horror
Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.