Pierre Laval Quotes

#1. I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

Pierre Laval

#2. I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

Pierre Laval

#3. It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Pierre Laval

#4. In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

Pierre Laval

#5. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

#6. One can sleep almost anywhere, but one must have a place to work. Even if it's not a masterpiece you're doing. Even a bad novel requires a chair to sit on and a bit of privacy.

Henry Miller

#7. If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she commonly refers to the life within her as the 'fetus'. But if she intends to deliver and love and care for the little child, she affectionately calls him 'my baby'.

James Dobson

#8. Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

Pierre Laval

#9. France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

Pierre Laval

#10. It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

Pierre Laval

#11. I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Pierre Laval

#12. I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Pierre Laval

#13. On the contrary, he was a mystery I was excited to solve.

Kiera Cass

#14. But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Pierre Laval

#15. But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.

John James Audubon

#16. The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.

George Carlin

#17. We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Pierre Laval