Top 71 Anouilh Quotes
#1. Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. Jean Anouilh, French dramatist and playwright
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#2. 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.
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#3. Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
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#4. It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
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#5. Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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#6. 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
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#8. Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
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#10. In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
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#11. Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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#12. Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
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#13. We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
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#14. The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
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#15. When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past ... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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#16. One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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#17. All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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#18. 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.
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#20. We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
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#22. Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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#24. The true masters of the art of living are already happy ...
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#26. Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
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#28. A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
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#29. Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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#30. Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
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#31. With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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#32. Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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#33. A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
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#34. Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
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#35. Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
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#36. God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
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#37. What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
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#38. God is on everyone's side ... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
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#43. Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
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#44. Everything ends this way in France - everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs - everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
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#45. Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
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#46. One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
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#47. There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.
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#50. What is this mania to love someone all one's life ? Why should we?
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#51. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
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#55. 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.
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#56. A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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#57. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.
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#58. Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
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#59. Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
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#60. Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
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#63. I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
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#64. All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
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#65. It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me
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#66. However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
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#69. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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#70. It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout.
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#71. Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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