Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean Giraudoux
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: October 29
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
Diplomat
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
Much
Nowhere
Men
Fashion
Think
Style
Thinking
Told
Beauty
Admirers
Woman
Admirer
Beautiful
Handsome
Without
Staff
More quotes by Jean Giraudoux
There are truths which can kill a nation.
Jean Giraudoux
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
Jean Giraudoux
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
Jean Giraudoux
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
Jean Giraudoux
All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.
Jean Giraudoux
Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.
Jean Giraudoux
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
Jean Giraudoux
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength that's the greatest human happiness.
Jean Giraudoux
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
Jean Giraudoux
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
Jean Giraudoux
Young girls are the chatelaines of truth they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.
Jean Giraudoux
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
Jean Giraudoux
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Jean Giraudoux
Close your eyes, all you see is yours.
Jean Giraudoux
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
Jean Giraudoux
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
Jean Giraudoux
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once‚ at least‚ the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
Jean Giraudoux
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.
Jean Giraudoux
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
Jean Giraudoux
