Top 53 Quotes by Jean Rostand

Theories pass. The frog remains.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

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

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.