Frases de Jean Giraudoux

“As nações, como os homens, morrem de imperceptíveis descortesias.”

“A felicidade é tão exigente como a esposa legítima.”

“Os homens inventaram a guerra para lá estarem sem nós e apenas entre homens.”

“É com as mentiras da manhã que as mulheres constroem as verdades da noite.”

“A biografia das mulheres: até aos trinta anos, é cronologia; depois dos trinta anos, é mitologia.”

“Bravos face ao inimigo, fracos perante a guerra, eis a divisa dos verdadeiros generais.”

“Em que consiste a pior das cobardias? Parecer-se cobarde perante os outros e manter a paz? Ou ser-se cobarde perante nós próprios e provocar a guerra?”

“Só se reconhece o erro quando todo mundo o compartilha”

“Conheço um meio para voltarmos a encontrar a fraternidade com os animais: o esporte.”

“O cavalo, como todo mundo sabe, é a parte mais importante do cavaleiro.”

“Servir é a divisa de quantos gostam de mandar.”

“Tenho um amigo obeso que não suportaria viajar em terceira classe de Paris a Ruão, e que vai, naquele corpo de quarta classe, do nascimento à morte.”

“O amor tem momentos realmente exaltantes: são as rupturas.”

“O destino é simplesmente a forma acelerada do tempo.”

“Deus não previu a felicidade para as suas criaturas, previu apenas compensações.”

“Que o teu corpo não seja a primeira cova do teu esqueleto.”

“Os heróis são aqueles que tornam magnífica uma vida que já não podem suportar.”

“O esporte é o esperanto dos povos.”

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

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

“You're an attorney! It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.”

“In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.”

“A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.”

“To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her.”

“When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.”

“Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.”

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

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

“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.”

“Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other — by their skins, their language, their smell: always jealous of each other, always hating each other — they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.”

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”