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
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Jean Giraudoux
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
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
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
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
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
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
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Type:
Dramatist
Date of Birth:
1882-10-29
Year of Death:
1944
Nationality:
French |