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
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
– Jean Giraudoux
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
– Jean Giraudoux
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
– Jean Giraudoux
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
– Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
– Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
– Jean Giraudoux
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
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
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
– Jean Giraudoux
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
– Jean Giraudoux
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?