Danton Quotes

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

Hilary Mantel

#2. 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

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

Hilary Mantel

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

Arthur Golden

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

Georges Danton

#9. The bathroom was jungle-fogged, flooded with puddles, piled with soaked towels; cakes of soap with long strands of blonde baked in.
A girl in pieces: Barbie-thin ankles, a shaving cut on her knee; hipbones she could stab you with; white hands gelled with strawberry body lotion.

Allyse Near

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

Georges Danton

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

Georges Danton

#12. That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.

Michael Cunningham

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

Georges Danton

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

Georges Jacques Danton

#15. I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.

George Bentham

#16. No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver

Kahlil Gibran

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

Georges Danton

#18. Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If you don't it could lead you in the wrong direction.

Amanda Penland

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

Georges Danton

#20. 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

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

Georges Danton

#22. Nature displays beauty in its pure state.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Georges Danton

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

Georges Danton

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

Georges Danton

#26. Life is a bargain between bitter and sweet. Because there is a surfeit of bitter, we must savor the rare sweet.

Stephanie Dray

#27. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Georges Jacques Danton

#28. 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

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

Georges Jacques Danton

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

Georges Danton

#31. All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

Suleman Abdullah

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

Georges Danton

#33. 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

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

Georges Jacques Danton

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

Georges Jacques Danton

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

Georges Jacques Danton

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

Georges Jacques Danton