Quote

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

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
Marriage
Duty
Wife
Constraint
Desire
Constraints
Kills
Wedding
Leads
Loves

More quotes by 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
Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
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
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
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
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
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
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
There are truths which can kill a nation.
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
A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
Jean Giraudoux
Image
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.
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
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