vous lui ressemblez,

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

— Maurice Druon

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

“First love is the only pure and happy one. If it goes wrong, nothing can replace it. Later loves can never attain to the…

— Maurice Druon

“It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape in speech…

— Maurice Druon

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

— Maurice Druon

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour…

— Maurice Druon

“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!”

— Maurice Druon

“Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having…

— Maurice Druon

“It is to be remarked that, during this period, nearly all the women at the Court of France were called either Jeanne or Marguerite…

— Maurice Druon

Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though…

— 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

“It must be admitted that such things were common coin of the period. Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute power fasinated…

— 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…

— Maurice Druon

“Each one of us has his shining hour in the events of his century. On one occasion it may be Monseigneur of Kent, on…

— Maurice Druon