Quote #15

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

More from Jean Giraudoux

  1. It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
  2. The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
  3. I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
  4. The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
  5. I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That w…
  6. 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 peop…
  7. Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
  8. Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

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