Quote by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

• We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like.

• The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

• I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

• The extreme limit of wisdom-- that is what the public calls madness.

• We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

• The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.