Author: Jean Rostand

Quotes

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

- Jean Rostand

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

- Jean Rostand

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

- Jean Rostand

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

- Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

- Jean Rostand

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

- Jean Rostand

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

- Jean Rostand

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

- Jean Rostand

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

- Jean Rostand

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