What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

Quote by Jean Anouilh

Topics: Excess Quotes, Poverty Quotes

Saintliness is also a temptation

Saintliness is also a temptation

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

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

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

What you get free costs too much.

What you get free costs too much.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both...

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both...

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor!...

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor!...

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself

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

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

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are...

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are...

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of...

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of...

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a...

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a...

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books...

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books...

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no...

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no...

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has...

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has...

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give...

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give...