Jean Cocteau Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• The joy of the young is to disobey

  Jean Cocteau

  Joy, Youth, Young

• The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

  Jean Cocteau

  Order, Joy, Youth

  "Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists". Book by James Geary (p. 271), 2007.

• Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

  Jean Cocteau

  Jobs, Light, Done

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

• Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

  Jean Cocteau

  Youth, Accepting, Certain

• Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

  Jean Cocteau

  Venture, Youth, Conviction

  Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.40, Melville House

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