Quotes by Cocteau, Jean

Tact is knowing how far to go too far. >>

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. >>

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has >>

Quotations about Literature

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the orde >>

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without ido >>

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the >>

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Cocteau, Jean