Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Jean Anouilh Playwright

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: France
  • Born: Jun 23, 1910
  • Died: Oct 3, 1987

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. courage & intelligence

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. gardening

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. courage & death

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. life

Nothing is irreparable in politics. politics

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. history

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. fear

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. courage

Things are beautiful if you love them. art & beauty

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. art

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. hope

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. fear

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. beauty

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. strength