Quotes from Jean Rostand


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    Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

    Choices | Reality | Taste


    The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

    Past | Surprises | Again


    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

    Feeling | Ability | Brief


    Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

    Truth | Astray | Leads


    In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

    Party | Three | Oneself


    I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

    Judge | Criticism | Praise


    Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

    Respect | Contempt | Renown


    I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

    Hell | Paradise | Deprived


    I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

    Reality | Honest | Books


    God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

    Dreams | God | Ground


    I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

    Life | Words | Sentence


    Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

    Equal | Origin | Destined


    To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

    Men | Image | Worse


    To be adult is to be alone.

    Alone | Adult


    The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

    Power | Vocation | Suspicious


    Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

    Fair | Critics | Resist


    One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

    Situation | Interest | Parade


    It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

    Opinion | Survive | Takes


    It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

    Thoughts | Hear | Others


    It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

    Attention | Error | Truths


       

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