Jean Giraudoux

"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."

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

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

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

"The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters."

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

"The secret of success is sincerity."