Quotes by Jean Anouilh

“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness-...”

“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”

“Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.”

“It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me”

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

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”

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

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

“What you get free costs too much.”

“An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.”

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

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

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

“Things are beautiful if you love them.”

“God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.”

“Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”

“A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.”

“When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.”

“The object of art is to give life a shape.”

“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.”