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Jean Giraudoux

Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), full name Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux, was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is known for his stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
- Amphitryon 38
  • Faithful women are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and not of their husbands.
- Amphitryon 38
  • Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
- Tiger at the Gates
  • There is no better way of exercising the imagination than study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature are freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
- Tiger at the Gates
  • I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
- Tiger at the Gates
  • There's nothing so stubborn as a man when you want him to do something.
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
  • Madame, we are the press. You know our power. We fix all values. We set all standards. Your entire future depends on us.
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
  • The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
- quoted by A Bloch, Murphy's Law Book Two
  • There are truths which can kill a nation.
- Electra

Samuel Goldwyn

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