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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
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
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
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Jean Giraudoux
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux
In wartime 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
Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other - by their skins, their language, their smell: always jealous of each other, always hating each other - they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.
Jean Giraudoux
You're an attorney! It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
Jean Giraudoux
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
Jean Giraudoux
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
Jean Giraudoux
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux
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
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Jean Giraudoux
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
Jean Giraudoux
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
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
Jean Giraudoux
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux
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
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