Top 53 Quotes by Jean Rostand

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

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

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.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.