Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay. Jean Giraudoux More Quotes by Jean Giraudoux More Quotes From Jean Giraudoux Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux mediocritymotivationalinspirational Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux broken-heartheartbreakhappiness 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 imaginationlawexercise There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. Jean Giraudoux afternoonsensibleworld To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness. Jean Giraudoux painhappinessgiving The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux gardennatureflower All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. Jean Giraudoux later-in-lifeevilmen Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut. Jean Giraudoux cuttingtakenbusiness 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 fashionbeautifulbeauty A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself. Jean Giraudoux namesclassmen I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. Jean Giraudoux gamesorderdeath One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. Jean Giraudoux catastropheprivilegewitness If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late. Jean Giraudoux lifetwoyears Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux marriagehusbandinspirational Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper. Jean Giraudoux papermenmean Close your eyes, all you see is yours. Jean Giraudoux eye 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. Jean Giraudoux weddingmarriagehusband Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Jean Giraudoux elementsairwar Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move. Jean Giraudoux leaderrealmoving 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. Jean Giraudoux womenclotheswinning
