Jean Giraudoux Novelist

Gender: Male
Citizenship: France
Born: Oct 29, 1882
Died: Jan 31, 1944

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

men & women

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

education & wisdom

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

smile & sympathy

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

marriage & women

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

death

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

nature & poetry

The secret of success is sincerity.

success