D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

It is still color, it is not yet light.

It is magnificent, but it is not war.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The shortest follies are the best.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

He who pardons easily invites offense.

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

A first impulse was never a crime.

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]

A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]

Ambition aspires to descend

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.