Phrase by 'Jean Genet'

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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  Bad , Harmony , Elegance , Height


Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  About , Nothing , Who , Betrayal


I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  Know , Eyes , Green , Questions


A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  People , Wind , Great , Ghetto


Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  Suicide , Lines , Speak , Audience


I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  Beauty , Thieves , Deep , Traitors


What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  Black , Man , Tree , Plants


The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  Man , Some , Revolution , Ideology


I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  Name , Violence , Danger , Boldness


Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

Author: Jean Genet - French Dramatist
  You , Violence , Calm


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