God is on everyone’s side… and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. – Jean Anouilh
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. – Jean Anouilh
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it’s not just a trick of the devil. – Jean Anouilh
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. – Jean Anouilh
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. – Jean Anouilh
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy – and that is life. – Jean Anouilh
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. – Jean Anouilh
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past…And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. – Jean Anouilh
