In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them. Jean Giraudoux More Quotes by Jean Giraudoux More Quotes From 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 stupid education hands Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay. Jean Giraudoux next-steps retirement death In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away. Jean Giraudoux hero running war Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. Jean Giraudoux jockeys falsehood lying To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless. Jean Giraudoux money witty beautiful The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes. Jean Giraudoux eye spirit looks All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun. Jean Giraudoux light self heart There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. Jean Giraudoux woven people years 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 Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit. Jean Giraudoux deceive deceit love men 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 you discipline management world There are no great people. There are only great topics. Jean Giraudoux only great great-people people When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other. Jean Giraudoux old nothing man change The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection. Jean Giraudoux grow women perfection men It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them. Jean Giraudoux better youth men country I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose. Jean Giraudoux lose nothing you people A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets! Jean Giraudoux view artist business imagination
