With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. Jean Anouilh More Quotes by Jean Anouilh More Quotes From Jean Anouilh One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. Jean Anouilh patriot wife knows Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. Jean Anouilh beautiful giving death Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Jean Anouilh hoaxes inspiration self Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that. Jean Anouilh if-there-is-a-god real beauty Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world. Jean Anouilh waiting heart death God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man! Jean Anouilh frightened fear men Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice. Jean Anouilh mistake believe art Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. Jean Anouilh life In matters of money there's no such thing as enough. Jean Anouilh money enough matter One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers. Jean Anouilh inheritance earth worry We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. Jean Anouilh complaints term found In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh effort gone love-is Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Jean Anouilh To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying. Jean Anouilh It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. Jean Anouilh Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy. Jean Anouilh Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. Jean Anouilh entire ourselves our accepting life Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. Jean Anouilh things god doubt beauty