D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible

Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.

I think it makes your stronger to admit that you're scared, because you're not scared to say that you're scared.

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

I want to score goals in every match, as many as possible.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

Patience and time conquer all things.

Your body can dictate your mind... As I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence, my body take over my mind, and I become confident for real.

However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy.

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Property is impossible.

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.