Louis De Bernières Quotes

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

The dead can read tears.