Jean Giraudoux Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.”

“The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.”

“The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.”

“When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.”

“Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.”

“If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.”

“It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.”