Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

— Jean Anouilh

The object of art is to give life a shape.

— Jean Anouilh

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

— Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

— Jean Anouilh

To say yes you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no even if saying no means death.

— Jean Anouilh

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

— Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

— Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

— Jean Anouilh

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

— Jean Anouilh

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

— Jean Anouilh