Each of us has a day .. when ...

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
 Jean Anouilh

Quotes from the same author

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
 Jean Anouilh
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
 Jean Anouilh
Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
 Jean Anouilh
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
 Jean Anouilh
My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.
 Jean Anouilh