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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
— Maurice Druon
Those called upon to play a decisive part in the history of nations are more often than not unaware of the destinies they embody
— Maurice Druon
We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.
— W. Edwards Deming
When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
— D'Brickashaw Ferguson
Mediocrities can tolerate being surrounded only by flatterers who conceal their mediocrity.
— Maurice Druon
Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand.
— Maurice Druon
It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.
— John E. Sarno
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
— Maurice Druon
I don't want perfect, Clay. I want you.
— A Meredith Walters
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.
— Maurice Druon
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.
— Maurice Druon
A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.
— Maurice Druon
The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing
— Maurice Druon
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
— Friedrich Schiller
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
— Maurice Druon
The Queen watched the drops of sweat pearling her husband's brow. And nothing disgusts a woman more than the sweat of the man she has ceased to love.
— Maurice Druon
There's never enough time to change your life. You don't get to change your life, period.
— Sherman Alexie