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Top 25 Alfred Jarry Quotes (2025 Update)

Alfred Jarry Quote: “The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.”

1. “The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “To be weird! That is my goal!”

2. “To be weird! That is my goal!”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “He’s not a man, he’s a machine.”

3. “He’s not a man, he’s a machine.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”

4. “God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “La mort n’est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.”

5. “La mort n’est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.”

7. “It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.”

8. “Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.”

9. “Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.”

10. “Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.”

11. “Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “That’s a beautiful speech, but nobody’s listening. Let’s go.”

12. “That’s a beautiful speech, but nobody’s listening. Let’s go.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l’infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.”

13. “Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l’infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe which can be – and perhaps should be – envisaged in the place of the traditional one.”

14. “Pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe which can be – and perhaps should be – envisaged in the place of the traditional one.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I’ve decided to make you Duke of Lithuania.”

15. “Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I’ve decided to make you Duke of Lithuania.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside.”

16. “The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one’s own bedroom.”

17. “It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one’s own bedroom.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Papa Ubu: Yes, gentlemen, but however beautiful it may be, it can’t compare with Poland. Because if there weren’t any Poland, there wouldn’t be any Poles!”

20. “Papa Ubu: Yes, gentlemen, but however beautiful it may be, it can’t compare with Poland. Because if there weren’t any Poland, there wouldn’t be any Poles!”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “You’re looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”

21. “You’re looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.”

23. “Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “One can show one’s contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one’s life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”

24. “One can show one’s contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one’s life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Ah, crap! Isn’t Wrong worth the same as Right?”

25. “Ah, crap! Isn’t Wrong worth the same as Right?”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.”

26. “The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland – that is to say, nowhere.”

27. “As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland – that is to say, nowhere.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.”

28. “Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.”

— Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry Quote: “If I ever meet him in a dark alley he’ll have one hell of a fifteen minutes.”

29. “If I ever meet him in a dark alley he’ll have one hell of a fifteen minutes.”

— Alfred Jarry

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