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Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.”
Source: Antigone
“C'est plein de disputes un bonheur.”
Source: Antigone
“My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“C'est la grande faiblesse des hommes de projeter ce qu'ils ont refoulé en eux - sur les autres.”
Source: Oedipe ou Le roi boiteux
Source: The rehearsal: a play in three acts
“Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.”
“In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.”
Source: Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can
Source: The rehearsal or Love punished
Source: The waltz of the toreadors: a play in three acts. Translated by Lucienne Hill
“One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.”
Source: Jean Anouilh ... plays
Source: The Collected Plays [Jean Anouilh]
Source: The Waltz of the Toreadors
“All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.”
Source: Jean Anouilh
“Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.”
“There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.”
Source: Ardèle: and Colombe : two plays
“A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.”
Source: Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette
“Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.”
Source: The play as theater
“Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.”
“Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.”
“Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.”
Source: Jean Anouilh
“Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.”
Source: The Lark
“Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.”
Source: Legend of lovers
“The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.”
“Nothing is irreparable in politics.”
Source: The Lark
“It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me”
Source: The play as theater
“A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.”
Source: Jean Anouilh
“Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.”
Source: Becket or the Honor of God
“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path”
Source: The Lark
Source: Time Remembered: A Romantic Comedy
“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
Source: The play as theater
Source: The play as theater
Source: Ring Round the Moon