Jean Giraudoux

Jean Giraudoux

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Known primarily as a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright, Jean Giraudoux also happens to be one of the most quotable figures in our collection. Jean Giraudoux's observations on Women are as sharp as their thoughts on Imagination, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Browse 14 quotes by Jean Giraudoux that cover ground from Women, Imagination, Wisdom, Sympathy, and Success. Readers often gravitate to this one: "Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."

“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”

— Jean Giraudoux

Smile

All Quotes by Jean Giraudoux

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

— Jean Giraudoux

Marriage

“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”

— Jean Giraudoux

Smile

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

— Jean Giraudoux

Death

“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.”

— Jean Giraudoux

Imagination

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

— Jean Giraudoux

Men

“The secret of success is sincerity.”

— Jean Giraudoux

Success

“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.”

— Jean Giraudoux

Imagination

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

— Jean Giraudoux

Nature

“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

Education