"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."
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Quotes by Jean Giraudoux
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"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"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Jean Giraudoux"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"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."
Jean Giraudoux"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
Jean Giraudoux"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."
Jean Giraudoux"The secret of success is sincerity."
Jean Giraudoux"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
Jean Giraudoux"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"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
Jean Giraudoux