Jean Cocteau Quotes on Society
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
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The extreme limit of wisdom - that's what the public calls madness.
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Accuracy is vexing to a crowd of would-be fantasizers. Hasn't our age coined the term 'escapism,' when in fact the only way to escape oneself is to allow oneself to be invaded?
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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.