The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death’s deserters. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
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. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There’s only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
Men don’t deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It’s a form of fidelity, their deceit. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I’ve never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
It’s odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection. Jean Giraudoux Read Quote
