Jean Rostand

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.