Quotes by : Jean Genet

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause....

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

By dint of saying that I'm not alive, I accept the fact that people cease to regard me.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's....

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must....

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.....

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They....

Betrayal is beautiful.