Quote

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Jean Giraudoux

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Catastrophes
Privileges
Catastrophe
Witness
Privilege
Great
Terrace

More quotes by Jean Giraudoux

Image
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
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
Image
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
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
Image
I believe in the gods or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent minded.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
Jean Giraudoux
Image
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
Image
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
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
Image
Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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