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The poetry of heroism holds an irresistible appeal for people who aren't involved in a war, especially when they're making piles of money out of one.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
To put your trust in men is to get yourself killed a little.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
She glorified in her unmarried-mother act. In
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece
— Rio Ferdinand
Love ... is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite ...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
He's fiddling around in his pocket ... nothing to worry about ... all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets ... a pistol? an erection?
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Everything's permissible internally.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You are always flattered when big clubs are interested in you.
— Rio Ferdinand
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
— Ferdinand Foch
Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE.
— John Green
That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Only in a popular war against France ... do I see a misfortune.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
Well, you know ... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer ... it's incommunicable ...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Lie, copulate, and die.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
— Ferdinand Mount
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
— Ferdinand Mount
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
— Ferdinand Mount
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That's what life is, a bit of light that ends in darkness. But
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
They'd put their flesh and spirit into that house of theirs, like a snail. But the snail doesn't know what he's doing. The
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You get a bad result one week and it's a natural reaction to go out in the next game and put it behind you and do well.
— Rio Ferdinand
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.
— Ferdinand Von Mueller
In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
— Ferdinand Piech
There won't be any love to spare in this world as long as there's five francs.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches?"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's no tyrant like a brain. Below
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life must go on, even if it's no joke ... just pretend to believe in the future.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
— Richard Gere
Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's no tyrant like a brain.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our trouble isn't lack of perseverance, it's that we're not on the right road that leads to an easy death. Going
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
it's the majority who decide what's crazy and what isn't. Even
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It's easier to run a revolution than a government.
— Ferdinand E. Marcos
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
— Ferdinand Marcos
There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.
— Rio Ferdinand
Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it. (on Kieran Richardson) — Rio Ferdinand
Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.
— Ferdinand Lundberg
Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
— Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
If it is your duty to croak like the toad, thengo ahead! And with all your might! Make them
hear you! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave ...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
— Ferdinand Foch
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
— Theodore White
Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.
— Ferdinand Oyono
When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.
— Ferdinand Hodler
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
— Ferdinand Foch
In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
No study is possible on the battlefield.
— Ferdinand Foch
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
— Ferdinand Marcos
Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.
— Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Women always have some mental reservation.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity.
— Ferdinand Hodler
Little boys have amazing minds.
— Ferdinand Marcos
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I piss on you all from a considerable height.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford. (on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United) — Rio Ferdinand
Frankly, just between you and me, I'm ending up even worse than I started ...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Victory is a thing of the will.
— Ferdinand Foch
The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.
— Elliott Smith
In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.
— Ferdinand Porsche
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The unknown is the governing principle of war.
— Ferdinand Foch
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
During my career several people have tried to push me out the door ... Nobody has succeeded yet.
— Ferdinand Piech
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine