Jean Anouilh
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.Collection: Gardening
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.Collection: Beauty
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Collection: Courage
What you get free costs too much.Collection: Independence
Things are beautiful if you love them.Collection: Love
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.Collection: Strength
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.Collection: Love
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.Collection: Art
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.Collection: Courage
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.Collection: Death
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.Collection: Life
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.Collection: Fear
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Every man thinks god is on his side.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.Collection: Life
The object of art is to give life shape.Collection: Art
Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.Collection: Life
Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.Collection: Life
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.Collection: Beauty
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.Collection: Carpe Diem
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.Collection: Love
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.Collection: Fighting
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a pathCollection: Men
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.Collection: Death
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.Collection: Life
The true masters of the art of living are already happy.Collection: Gratitude
All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.Collection: Names
However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.Collection: Dog
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.Collection: Atheist