I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

Quote by Jean Cocteau

Topics: Funny Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do...

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say...

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say...

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so...

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so...

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his...

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his...

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying...

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying...

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me,...

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me,...

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time...

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time...

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which...

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which...