Author: Jean Anouilh

Quotes

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

- Jean Anouilh

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

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

- Jean Anouilh

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

- Jean Anouilh

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

- Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

- Jean Anouilh

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.

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.

- Jean Anouilh

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

- Jean Anouilh

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

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

- Jean Anouilh

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

- Jean Anouilh

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