Jean Anouilh Quotes

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.