D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Canada has always been a strong supporter of Chinas accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete Chinas accession.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up

I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

I would love to have a race against Usain Bolt one day! It would certainly be a good challenge for me.

My mother used to have a shop in which she offered very colorful clothes. I liked that from my early days on.

First and foremost, we have to focus on what we're doing and not worry about what Bayern - or any other clubs - are doing.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all.

Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.