Jean Anouilh

Who was Jean Anouilh?

Jean Anouilh was a screenwriter.

Famous Quotes:

• An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
• Saintliness is also a temptation.
• Things are beautiful if you love them.
• Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
• To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
• It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.
• It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
• One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
• With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.