Jean Anouilh quotes

Jean Anouilh was a renowned French playwright whose works often explored themes of conflict, identity, and morality. His plays, such as "Antigone" and "The Lark," earned international acclaim for their modern reinterpretations of classic tales. He influenced twentieth-century theatre with his distinctive blending of tragedy and comedy. Here are 40 of his quotes:

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Saintliness is also a temptation.

Jean Anouilh

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past - and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

Jean Anouilh

But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Jean Anouilh

Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me.

Jean Anouilh

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Jean Anouilh

To die is nothing. Begin by living. It's less funny and lasts longer.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

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

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Jean Anouilh

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Jean Anouilh