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

Camille Desmoulins

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

Diana Gabaldon

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Charles Dickens

#7. 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

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

Lytton Strachey

#9. 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

#10. My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

Laurence Housman

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Brandon Sanderson

#14. Until we find Enio, I'm closer to you than your own shadow.

Meg Hennessy

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

Bastille Pompeii

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people ... and I disliked them all.

Abraham Lincoln

#20. I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

Richard Matheson

#21. Poor is the man, whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

Madonna