Theo Gangi > Theo's Quotes

“Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.”
― Maurice Druon, The Iron King

“It must be admitted that such things were common coin of the period. Kingdoms were often handed over to adolescents, whose absolute power fasinated them as might a game. Hardly grown out of the age in which it is fun to tear the wings from flies, they might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men. Too young to fear or even imagine death, they would not hesitate to distribute it around them.”
― Maurice Druon, The Iron King

“Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.”
― Maurice Druon

“When one has governed men for a long time, when one has thought that one has acted for the best, when one knows the pains the task has entailed, and then suddenly sees that one has never been either loved or understood, but merely submitted to, then one is overwhelmed with bitterness, and wonders whether one could not have found some better way of spending one’s life.”
― Maurice Druon, The Strangled Queen

“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, La loba de Francia

“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 Iron King

“The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing”
― Maurice Druon