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Jean Anouilh Quotes

1910–1987 France

Jean Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist, screenwriter and translator.

France
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Screenwriters
Translators

Also known as: Anouilh, Jean

Random Jean Anouilh quote

9 quotes

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

Time Remembered (1958)

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Becket (1959)

Live your life, and bear fruits.- DIKIRR.

Stuart Allan (2010)

But one cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

Cecile or The School for Fathers (1954)

Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”

Jean Anouilh as cited in: Stuart Allan (2010)

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

The Rehearsal (1950)

To die is nothing. Begin by living. It’s less funny and lasts longer.

Roméo et Jeannette (1946)

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Mademoiselle Colombe (1950)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Anouilh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.