Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Jean Cocteau

Quotes about Jean Cocteau

2 Sourced Quotes

    • Source
    • Report...
It was quite fashionable to poke fun at Hugo. You remember Gide's Victor Hugo is the greatest French poet, alas! or Cocteau's Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo. Anyway, I hated rhetoric and eloquence. I agreed with Verlaine, who said, You have to get hold of eloquence and twist its neck off! Nonetheless, it took some courage. Nowadays it is common to debunk great men, but it wasn't then.

Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco
    • Source
    • Report...
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.

Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway

Quote of the day

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell

Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau
Creative Commons

Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963 (aged 74)

Jean Cocteau Quotes
Jean Cocteau Short Quotes
Quotes about Jean Cocteau

Featured Authors

Margaret ThatcherMarie CurieWilliam ShakespeareColetteOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Mark TwainJohn F. KennedyHenry FordStephen KingDemocritusDenis DiderotMadonna

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes