“ As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. 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
“ Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. 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 the example of the eternal seductiveness of life. 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
“ I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded. Jean Giraudoux
“ 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
“ 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
“ We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. Jean Giraudoux
“ The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux
“ If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song. Jean Giraudoux
“ I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself… Jean Giraudoux
