D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Yves Saint Laurent hated fashion. He loved style.

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

The zest for life, which is the source of all passion and all insight, even divine, does not come to us from ourselves.... It is God who has to give us the impulse of wanting him.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

You never see a French person eating alone.

Love wants everything without condition, love has no law.

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Peace is produced by war.

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)

There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.

When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.