Quote

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.

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
Somewhere
Dog
Happy
Lost
Part
Always
Aura
Auras
Prevent

More quotes by Jean Anouilh

Image
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Image
What you get free costs too much.
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
Oh, love is real enough you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Believe me all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh
Image
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.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
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
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.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
Jean Anouilh
Image
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.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh
Image
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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
One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh
Image
Saintliness is also a temptation.
Jean Anouilh
Image
All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
Jean Anouilh