Quotes by Anouilh, Jean

"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."

Anouilh, Jean on fear
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"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."

Anouilh, Jean on god   

"Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes."

Anouilh, Jean on heroes and heroism   

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying."

Anouilh, Jean on involvement   

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

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it."

Anouilh, Jean on men   

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

Anouilh, Jean on morality   

"Nothing is irreparable in politics."

Anouilh, Jean on politics
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"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"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."

Anouilh, Jean on propaganda   

"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Anouilh, Jean on riches
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"Saintliness is also a temptation."

Anouilh, Jean on saints   

"Effective action is always unjust."

Anouilh, Jean on action
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"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."

Anouilh, Jean on sympathy   

"It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now."

Anouilh, Jean on tragedies   

"What you get free costs too much."

Anouilh, Jean on cost
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"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."

Anouilh, Jean on courage   

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

Anouilh, Jean on courage
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