Jean Giraudoux

The secret of success is sincerity.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.