The Royal Succession Quotes

“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, La ley de los varones

“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!”
― Maurice Druon, The Royal Succession

“Nothing moves an older man more than a confession of inexperience from a younger, particularly if the latter be his social superior.”
― Maurice Druon, The Royal Succession

“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.”
― Maurice Druon, La ley de los varones

“When one explains one’s unhappiness, translates it into rational terms, it is because one has already admitted it to oneself. The shock, the almost physical pressure, was slowly giving way to the second stage of sorrow: the cruelty of awareness.”
― Maurice Druon, The Royal Succession

“When one explains one’s unhappiness, translates it into rational terms, it
is because one has already admitted it to oneself. The shock, the almost
physical pressure, was slowly giving way to the second stage of sorrow: the
cruelty of awareness.”
― Maurice Druon, The Royal Succession

“«En honor a la verdad, sería preferible que el rey fuera elegido; sólo los apetitos corruptos de los hombres y su manera de actuar hacen preferible la herencia a la elección.»”
― Maurice Druon, La ley de los varones

“more or less in keeping with the intuition, common to the greater part of men, that death is a falling into a dark and immense silence, into an indefinite unconsciousness.”
― Maurice Druon, The Royal Succession

“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. Had”
― Maurice Druon, The Royal Succession