Jean Anouilh Quotes
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Anouilh, Jean. Antigone. Translated by Lewis Galantière, Random House, 1946.
See Franklin Delano Roosevelt {636844} and Henry David Thoreau {35833} for similar later statements.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
