Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. Jean Anouilh More Quotes by Jean Anouilh More Quotes From Jean Anouilh 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 shipspoisonhouse Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. Jean Anouilh leavingorderway When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. Jean Anouilh halfagepast A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. Jean Anouilh happy-lovequarrelslove-is The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. Jean Anouilh immoralitymorality Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes Jean Anouilh raceherolying Nothing is irreparable in politics. Jean Anouilh irreparablepoliticianpolitics Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. Jean Anouilh menbelieveideas Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. Jean Anouilh acceptancemenfacts Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage. Jean Anouilh funeralcouragemen Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. Jean Anouilh hatredmemoriespast My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator. Jean Anouilh giving-upwifeyears All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly. Jean Anouilh sillysweetchildren Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves. Jean Anouilh greatest-loveruinsplus Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy. Jean Anouilh aurasdoglost Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid. Jean Anouilh unsaid Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. Jean Anouilh flawlesscleantragedy There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy. Jean Anouilh lost-dogdoglost Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth. Jean Anouilh nicegivingart Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human. Jean Anouilh plusbeing-humanaccepting
