Author: Jean Rostand

Quotes

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

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

- Jean Rostand

To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

- Jean Rostand

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

- 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

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

- 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

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

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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