Quotes About Druon

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

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

Maurice Druon

#6. Do not bargain with any temptation; lock yourself immediately in My[Jesus] Heart and, at the first opportunity, reveal the temptation to the confessor ... Do not fear struggle; courage itself often intimidates temptations, and they dare not attack us.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#7. The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

Dennis Miller

#8. The chips were the enablers, limited pellets of silicon that served an apparently unlimited range of functions, as like a single snackfood delivering the tastes of chocolate, vanilla, pork rind, popcorn, pretzel, and chip in every bitesized bite.

Joshua Cohen

#9. 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

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

Maurice Druon

#11. 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

#12. Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Steven Wright

#13. The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Malebo Sephodi

#14. 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

#15. Everything was so desperately noisy in the dark when he was alone. Each time he moved, there was the sound of a crease. He felt like a man in a paper suit.

Markus Zusak

#16. Actually, the University of California says they may start a marijuana research center. Really? I thought the University of California was a marijuana research center.

Jay Leno

#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. In my crazy world, above all others ... you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one ... who was the most beautiful ... This is the unspoken truth.

Kaori Yuki

#20. that happening to you in the middle of the night, then let's hear about it. The

Roald Dahl

#21. 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

#22. Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

Tara Brach

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

Maurice Druon

#26. Include and grow. Include and expand.

Osho

#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. And if you want to pop off for a quick one yourself later on," said Ford, "we can always cover for you in return.

Douglas Adams

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

Maurice Druon

#31. 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

#32. Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

Evgeny Morozov

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

Maurice Druon

#35. 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

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

Maurice Druon

#37. Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Bob Kerrey

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

Maurice Druon

#39. 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