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. – Jean Giraudoux
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. – Jean Giraudoux
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. – Jean Giraudoux
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux
The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death’s deserters. – Jean Giraudoux
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. – Jean Giraudoux
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. – Jean Giraudoux
It’s odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. – Jean Giraudoux
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. – Jean Giraudoux
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. – Jean Giraudoux
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. – Jean Giraudoux
Men don’t deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It’s a form of fidelity, their deceit. – Jean Giraudoux
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. – Jean Giraudoux
The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection. – Jean Giraudoux
I have been a woman for fifty years, and I’ve never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. – Jean Giraudoux
