top of page
.png){kind=small}
"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Catastrophes quotes
"Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes."
"Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen."
"The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force."
"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
Explore more quotes by Jean Giraudoux
"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
"As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum."
"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
bottom of page