Best Danton Quotes

#1. Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

Judith Miller

#2. Pageview journalism treats people by what they appear to want - from data that is unrepresentative to say the least - and gives them this and only this until they have forgotten that there could be anything else. It takes the audience at their worst and makes them worse.

Ryan Holiday

#3. What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?

Saul Bellow

#4. Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

Georges Danton

#5. If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

Pat Robertson

#6. Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Georges Danton

#7. I was really selfish, and I didn't want to listen to anyone. Then I started working with some really amazing people, traveling more, and figuring out who I was as a person - looking at different things, listening to different music.

Charli XCX

#8. After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Georges Danton

#9. We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

Georges Jacques Danton

#10. From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.

Gwynne Shotwell

#11. You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

Dan Chaon

#12. Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

Don Rickles

#13. I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

Georges Danton

#14. Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Anne Lamott

#15. You must develop your skills around your calling

Sunday Adelaja

#16. To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

Georges Danton

#17. One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

Georges Danton

#18. Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

Ray Bradbury

#19. To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

Georges Danton

#20. Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Georges Danton

#21. God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.

Hilary Mantel

#22. At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton

#23. As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

Hilary Mantel

#24. In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton

#25. But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully - in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.

Hilary Mantel

#26. In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Georges Jacques Danton

#27. Home is where we have a history.

Terry Tempest Williams

#28. My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

Georges Danton

#29. Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,
myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Georges Danton

#30. Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end."
Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.

Hilary Mantel

#31. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Georges Jacques Danton

#32. Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

Georges Danton

#33. DANTON: Could you indeed? It's you idealists who make the best tyrants.
ROBESPIERRE: It seems a bit late to be having this conversation. I've had to take up violence now, and so much else. We should have discussed it last year.

Hilary Mantel

#34. The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Jacques Danton

#35. I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Georges Danton

#36. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Georges Jacques Danton

#37. You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

Georges Danton

#38. The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

Georges Danton

#39. Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Georges Danton

#40. Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.

Barbara Warren