D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?

...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Innovation is a discipline not a lottery... It comes from the combination of two elements within my control: hard work and openmindedness.

It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.

I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.

I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.

You think I was born rich? I've worked really hard. You have no idea.

This extends to all things, but you only learn it by losing a few times.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

Patience is the courage of virtue.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

La solitude re tablit aussi bien les harmonies du corps que celles de l'a" me. Solitude restores the harmonies of the body no less than those of the soul.

Every quarterback can be rattled. There's no guy who can't be.

In order to live happily, live hidden

Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.

I think of a film as being like a toy train.

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

The beautiful is always severe.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.