Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
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Source: La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
Source: The Madwoman of Chaillot
Source: The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts
“All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.”
Source: The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts
Source: Three plays
“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
Source: Choice of the Elect
“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
“One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.”
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
Source: Three plays
“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”
Source: Three plays
Source: Three plays
Source: Three plays
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!”
Source: The play as theater
Source: Three plays
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”
Source: The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.”
Source: The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
Source: The play as theater
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
Source: Three plays
“Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.”
Source: Jean Giraudoux: FOUR PLAYS, ADAPTED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE VALENCY
“You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.”
Source: The play as theater
“A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.”
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
Source: Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels
“There are truths which can kill a nation.”
Source: Three plays
“Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.”
Source: Three plays
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux
Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux