Jean Anouilh Quotes

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

I never really found out what love was.

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found." "The truth?" Sazed said. "No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.