Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux More Quotes by Jean Giraudoux More Quotes From Jean Giraudoux Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Jean Giraudoux broken-heart heartbreak happiness 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 imagination law exercise 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 afternoon sensible world 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 pain happiness giving The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux garden nature flower All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. Jean Giraudoux later-in-life evil men 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 cutting taken business 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 fashion beautiful beauty 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 names class men I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. Jean Giraudoux games order death One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. Jean Giraudoux catastrophe privilege witness 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 life two years Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux marriage husband inspirational 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 paper men mean 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 wedding marriage husband Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Jean Giraudoux elements air war 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 leader real moving 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 women clothes winning Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. Jean Giraudoux punctuation-marks sentences humans
