Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

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

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

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

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

The secret of success is sincerity.

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

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.

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.

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