List of Alfred Jarry Quotes

Applause That Comes Thundering With Such Force You Might Think The Audience Merely Suffers The Music As An Excuse For Its Ovations.

La Mort N'est Que Pour Les Me Diocres. Death Is Only For The Mediocre.

Dieu Est Le Point Tangent De Ze Ro Et De L'infini. God Is The Tangential Point Of Zero And The Infinite.

You're Looking Exceptionally Ugly Tonight, Madam, Is It Because We Have Company?

Blind And Unwavering Undisciplined At All Times Constitutes The Real Strength Of All Free Men.

We Shall Not Have Succeeded In Demolishing Everything Unless We Demolish The Ruins As Well. But The Only Way I Can See Of Doing That Is To Use Them To Put Up A Lot Of Fine, Well-designed Buildings.

The Virtue Of Dress Rehearsals Is That They Are A Free Show For A Select Group Of Artists And Friends Of The Author, And Where For One Unique Evening The Audience Is Almost Expurgated Of Idiots.

Duration Is The Transformation Of A Succession Into A Reversion. In Other Words: The Becoming Of A Memory.

Anti-alcoholics Are Unfortunates In The Grip Of Water, That Terrible Poison, So Corrosive That Out Of All Substances It Has Been Chosen For Washing And Scouring, And A Drop Of Water Added To A Clear Liquid Like Absinthe, Muddles It.

To Keep Up Even A Worthwhile Tradition Means Vitiating The Idea Behind It Which Must Necessarily Be In A Constant State Of Evolution: It Is Mad To Try To Express New Feelings In A Mummified Form.

Dawn Was Breaking, Like The Light From Another World.

God Is The Shortest Distance From Zero To Infinity.