Jean Anouilh – 16 Quotes

16 Quotes by Jean Anouilh

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some.

– Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

– Jean Anouilh

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

– Jean Anouilh

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

– Jean Anouilh

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

– Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

– Jean Anouilh

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

– Jean Anouilh

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

– Jean Anouilh

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

– Jean Anouilh

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

– Jean Anouilh

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it.

– Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

– Jean Anouilh

Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

– Jean Anouilh

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

– Jean Anouilh

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

– Jean Anouilh

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

– Jean Anouilh