Maurice Druon Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors.

Zhang Ziyi

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

Jay Hernandez

#9. To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin ... and I've always known where it will end.

D.J. MacHale

#10. 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.

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

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

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

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#14. I love it when you talk medical to me. - Augustus Waters

John Green

#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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.

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#18. There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass.

Jim Butcher

#19. Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

Denise Levertov

#20. 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.

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#21. Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

Kierston Wareing

#22. The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Martin Luther

#23. For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-...

Bob Goff

#24. 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.

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

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#26. One year before the Rapture " ... that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons can never take a human figure in a perfect form, and so the most stupid people are able to discover them." Nicholas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, 1595.

Phillip W. Simpson

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

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Mother Teresa

#31. For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

Richard Matheson

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

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#33. 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.

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#34. Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

William Hurrell Mallock

#35. 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.

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

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#37. 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.

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#38. The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

Florence Scovel Shinn