Quote

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

Jean Anouilh

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Anouilh
Age: 77 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 1987
Died: October 3
Author
Director
Dramatist
Film Director
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Bordèu
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
Five
Children
Twelve
Silly
Begin
Sweet

More quotes by Jean Anouilh

Image
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
Jean Anouilh
Image
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Jean Anouilh
Image
The object of art is to give life shape.
Jean Anouilh
Image
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh
Image
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
Jean Anouilh
Image
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
Jean Anouilh
Image
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Jean Anouilh
Image
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
Jean Anouilh
Image
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.
Jean Anouilh
Image
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.
Jean Anouilh
Image
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh
Image
I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
Jean Anouilh
Image
What you get free costs too much.
Jean Anouilh
Image
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.
Jean Anouilh