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