Druon's Quotes

#1. Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.

George R R Martin

#2. I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly recommended from George R. R. Martin, and for good reason.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

Maurice Druon

#4. The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

Maurice Druon

#5. Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.

Maurice Druon

#6. The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Honore De Balzac

#7. The Queen watched the drops of sweat pearling her husband's brow. And nothing disgusts a woman more than the sweat of the man she has ceased to love.

Maurice Druon

#8. The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing

Maurice Druon

#9. When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.

Harold Ramis

#10. Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Maurice Druon

#11. First love is the only pure and happy one. If it goes wrong, nothing can replace it. Later loves can never attain to the same limpid perfection; though they may be as solid, as marble, they are streaked with veins of another colour, the dried blood of the past.

Maurice Druon

#12. If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

Christina Baker Kline

#13. The hand of God strikes swiftly, particularly when assisted by the hand of man.

Maurice Druon

#14. If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

Khalil Gibran

#15. Those called upon to play a decisive part in the history of nations are more often than not unaware of the destinies they embody

Maurice Druon

#16. It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape in speech so that we are obliged to give them the reality of accomplishment.

Maurice Druon

#17. Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand.

Maurice Druon

#18. Beside London Bridge, the Ponte Vecchio at Florence seemed but a mere trifle in Guccio's memory, and the Arno a brook compared with the Thames. He said so to his companion. 'All the same we teach them everything,' the latter replied.

Maurice Druon

#19. Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

J.K. Rowling

#20. I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.

Amy Hastings

#21. And in declaring true every theory that does not contravene the evidence of the senses, Epicurus does not blink the fact that the philosopher may arrive at more than one explanation for a given phenomenon - in some cases, even at explanations that are mutually exclusive or contradictory.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#22. Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

#23. I'm doing the best I can. Getting old, that's what it is. I'll be fifty-three at the feast of Saint Michael. I'm no longer as strong as you are, young sirs,' said the ferryman.

Maurice Druon

#24. I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

Maurice Druon

#25. Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake it for the genuine article.

Nathan Poe

#26. Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.

Maurice Druon

#27. Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!

Maurice Druon

#28. Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon

#29. The break of a family is the break of society.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

Maurice Druon

#31. A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.

Maurice Druon

#32. Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon

#33. I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

Maurice Druon

#34. Don't touch that knife. YOU never need to be holding a knife ... I don't give a shit, learn how to butter stuff with a spoon

Justin Halpern

#35. I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

Maurice Druon

#36. Katie shook her head in dismay. "I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl."
"No, Katie," the countess said in a clear voice. "The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another."
Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in "Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#37. It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Anthony Trollope

#38. I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.

Maurice Druon