D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

It feels good to get sacks and to know I can do it.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.

I would rather worry without need than live without heed.

Loving dogs is a question of anthropomorphism. We become attached to dogs because of the feelings we project on them.

When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.

At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both books I have reread regularly since.

One does not always sing out of happiness.

It's magnificent, but it's not war.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.

The true science and study of mankind is man.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

He who fears not death fears not a threat.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Happiness is meant to be shared.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.