Jean Giraudoux

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944) was a French dramatist who wrote internationally acclaimed plays.

6 Quotes

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

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

— 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

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

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

— 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