Jean Giraudoux Quotes
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To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her.
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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
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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.
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A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
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The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
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The secret of success is sincerity.
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When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
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Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
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There are no great people. There are only great topics.
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It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
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In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.