Quote by Jean Anouilh
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in histo

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh

Other quotes by Jean Anouilh

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh

Category:
power
Read Quote

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

Category:
Fear
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

Category:
History

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. – Bruce Springsteen

Category:
History

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. – Conrad Hall

Category:
History

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

Category:
History

Random Quotes

Now, on nights that I cant sleep, I play video games alone until the morning. – Namie Amuro

Category:
alone

I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert

Category:
Education

Back then I didnt think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasnt the life for me! – Sylvia Kristel

Category:
Freedom

Cockroaches really put my “all creatures great and small” creed to the test. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Insects