Jean Giraudoux Quotes

"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

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made."
-Jean Giraudoux in Success quotes.

"Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile."
-Jean Giraudoux

"A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal."
-Jean Giraudoux in Immortality quotes.

"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 in Golf quotes.

"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
-Jean Giraudoux in War quotes.

"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."
-Jean Giraudoux in Laws quotes.

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