Jean Giraudoux Quotes and Quotation

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• 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.    

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

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

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

• Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

• 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.

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

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

• Only the mediocre are always at their best.

• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
  • A similar statement became a routine part of the comedic performances of George Burns.

• 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...

• There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
  • Variant: We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

•  Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.    

• 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.

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