Jean Giraudoux Quotes

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

flowers

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.  Everybody lies.

war

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

mankind

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back.  Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

poetry war poets

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.

women

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

golf

There's 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.

law

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.

law lawyers

There's 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.

lawyers