Quotes by

Jean Giraudoux

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. – Jean Giraudoux

Only the mediocre are always at their best. – Jean Giraudoux

A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. – Jean Giraudoux

Im not afraid of death. Its the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. – Jean Giraudoux

The secret of success is sincerity. – Jean Giraudoux

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. – Jean Giraudoux

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? – Jean Giraudoux

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. – Jean Giraudoux

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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. – Jean Giraudoux

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. – Jean Giraudoux

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. – Jean Giraudoux

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. – Jean Giraudoux

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux