Jean Giraudoux Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”

“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.”

“A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.”

“Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.”

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

“There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.”

“It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.”

“A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.”

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”

“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”