Quotes from Maurice Druon

Nous autres banquiers nous sommes un peu comme les prêtres, Monseigneur. Vous confessez les âmes ; nous confessons les bourses, et sommes nous aussi tenus au secret.

C'est un grand acte de sagesse à la fois et de pitié de la part du créateur, que de nous avoir interdit la connaissance de l'avenir, alors qu'il nous à octroyé les délices du souvenir et les prestiges de l'espérance.

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Le propre des hommes forts n'est pas d'ignorer les hésitations et les doutes qui sont le fond commun de la nature humaine, mais seulement de les surmonter plus rapidement.

Order! As happens with all political blunderers, the word was ceaselessly upon his lips, and nothing could have persuaded him to admit that the world had changed even a little in the last century.

A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.

Nothing moves an older man more than a confession of inexperience from a younger, particularly if the latter be his social superior.

There's the gratitude of sons-in-law for you. You poison a king so that they may take his place, and then they do exactly as they please without consideration for anyone!

Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.

Los días vividos, pletóricos o vacíos, tranquilos o agitados, son todos por igual días pasados, y la ceniza del pasado pesa lo mismo en todas las manos.

From being the permanent militia of the Christian world, they had become the permanent bankers of Church and King. To have many debtors is to have many enemies.

Même lorsque nous sommes punis pour de faux motifs, il y a toujours une cause véritable à notre chatiment. Tout acte injuste, même commis pour une juste cause, porte en soi la malédiction.

Extreme fatigue causes insomnia, and insomnia is the cause of unhappiness

History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre.

How is it possible? Already another year gone by? How could it go so quickly!' Perhaps it is because one takes up too many moments remembering, reliving times past.

Youth fills the time to come with imagination; old age relives the past through memory. The two things are equivalent.

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Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind!

En bon Italien, Guccio pensa que la chose serait plaisante de séduire à la fois et la fille et la mère.