Top 100 Joan Arc Quotes
#1. The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.
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#4. It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
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#5. Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
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#6. Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
Kathryn Harrison
#7. When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#8. About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
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#9. It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.
Michio Kaku
#10. The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
Kathryn Harrison
#11. It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
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#12. I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.
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#13. I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.
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#14. Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.
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#15. Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
Joan Van Ark
#16. Ah well,' he said, jovially. 'As Joan of Arc probably said: "Build a girl a fire and she's warm for a few minutes. Set a girl on fire and she's warm for the rest of her life."' I
Jodi Taylor
#17. Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
Kathryn Harrison
#18. Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
Mark Twain
#19. I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
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#20. If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
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#21. [Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
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#22. Do you smell something burning or is it me?
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#23. I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
Anne Lamott
#24. How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?
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#25. All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!
Ellen Burstyn
#28. One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.
Kathryn Harrison
#30. If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was vile like this. I never knew that a saint could summon torment like this.
Philippa Gregory
#31. You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
Rudyard Kipling
#32. If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
E. Jean Carroll
#33. Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.
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#34. As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.
Gene Luen Yang
#35. I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
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#36. In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.
Larry Gatlin
#37. I die for speaking the language of the angels.
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#38. Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.
Kate Clinton
#39. I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
Mark Twain
#40. Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end.
Harold Clurman
#41. Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
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#42. Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!
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#43. If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
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#44. Since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
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#45. In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.
Steve Erickson
#46. What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
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#47. I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
Kathryn Harrison
#48. You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.
Melissa De La Cruz
#49. Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
Carine Roitfeld
#51. For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
Charles Bukowski
#53. If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
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#54. I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.
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#55. Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You
were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to
me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural
references were the sign of a colonized mind.
Kamila Shamsie
#56. Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
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#57. The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.
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#58. I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare ...
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#59. General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#61. When women came up with PMS, men came up with ESPN.
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#62. I am not afraid ... I was born to do this.
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#63. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
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#64. The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
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#65. Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
Francoise Sagan
#67. Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
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#68. Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.
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#69. King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France ... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.
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#70. Nothing surprises me now, I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.
Augusten Burroughs
#71. Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
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#72. I'm not Joan of Arc or anything. Why would they fight for me?"
"you'll give them hope.
Lauree Waldrop
#73. Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!
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#74. If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.
Maria Augusta Von Trapp
#75. Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.
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#77. Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
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#78. It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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#79. Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt ...
Steven Morrissey
#80. The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
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#81. I asked my designer friend, Sam Klemick, to make a headdress for me, drawing inspiration from 1920s headpieces, Athena and Joan of Arc. Before each show, I have this quiet meditative moment where I put the headdress on and gather my thoughts and strength.
Sydney Wayser
#82. Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
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#83. Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.
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#85. Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.
Isaac Asimov
#86. You Englishman, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and commands you through me, Joan the Maid, that you quit your fortresses and return into your own country, or if not, I shall make such mayhem that the memory of it will be perpetual. - Joan of Arc
Susan Banfield
#87. [Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.
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#88. All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
Indira Gandhi
#89. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Rita Mae Brown
#90. Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
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#91. Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Joan Van Ark
#92. By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.
Kathryn Harrison
#93. I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#94. All battles are first won or lost, in the mind.
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#95. Your failure is measured by your aspirations. Aspire not, and you cannot fail. Columbus died in chains. Joan or Arc was burned at the stake. Let us all live snugly -- and life will soon be little more than a thick, gelatinous stream of comfortability and ignorance.
Myles Connolly
#96. You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
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#97. We've never heard
About a marvel quite so great,
For all the heroes who have lived
In history can't measure up
In bravery against the Maid.
Christine De Pizan
#98. I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.
Lena Headey
#99. Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.
Morrissey
#100. She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her practicality into her practice. Ine modern Imperial wars, the case is reversed. Our dreams, our aims are always, we insist, quite practical. It is our practice that is dreamy.
G.K. Chesterton
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