Quotes About Bastille

#1. Aujourd'hui, rien.
That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.

Jo Walton

#2. I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.

Richard Virenque

#3. Behold!" I bellowed. "'Tis a foul beast of the nether-hells. Stand behind me and I shall slay it!"
"Oh, Alcatraz," Bastille breathed. "Thou art awesomish and manlyish.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Lytton Strachey

#6. The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. Eighteen years a secret and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille;

Charles Dickens

#8. I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven.

David Sedaris

#9. Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear

Peter Weiss

#10. In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.

Francois Hollande

#12. Date of our first anniversary, Jamie had been in the Bastille, and I ... I had been in

Diana Gabaldon

#13. What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Camille Desmoulins

#14. Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#15. I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well.

Steven R. McQueen

#16. Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

Richard Dawkins

#17. I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation

Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

#18. The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#19. Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony.

Debasish Mridha

#20. I will not walk backwards in life.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

Bastille Pompeii

#22. Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.

Courtney Milan

#23. My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

Vin Diesel

#24. Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

Pete Rose

#25. Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche