The King Without a Kingdom Quotes

“Cuantas menos palabras uno pronuncia, menos serán repetidas y menos serán falseadas”.”
― Maurice Druon, The King Without a Kingdom

“Si la gente dejase de temer el infierno ¿cómo podríamos conseguir que diese limosna e hiciera penitencia, en compensación por sus pecados? Sin el infierno, la iglesia podría cerrar la tienda”.”
― Maurice Druon, The King Without a Kingdom

“Por otra parte, los pueblos, e incluso las cortes, siempre dados a la ilusión, esperan que el nuevo rey sea mejor que el precedente, como si la novedad implicase en sí misma una virtud milagrosa”.”
― Maurice Druon, The King Without a Kingdom

“Es imposible impedir la guerra cuando los ejércitos comenzaron a marchar.”
― Maurice Druon, De cómo un rey perdió Francia

“Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind!”
― Maurice Druon, De cómo un rey perdió Francia

“Youth fills the time to come with imagination; old age relives the past through memory. The two things are equivalent.”
― Maurice Druon, De cómo un rey perdió Francia

“How is it possible? Already another year gone by? How could it go so quickly!' Perhaps it is because one takes up too many moments remembering, reliving times past.”
― Maurice Druon, De cómo un rey perdió Francia

“History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre.”
― Maurice Druon, DE COMO UN REY PERDIO FRANCIA VII

“How, then, did it happen that this same France forty years later came to be crushed on the battlefield by a nation it outnumbered fivefold? Why should its noblemen be split up into factions, its bourgeoisie in revolt, its people overwhelmed by excessive taxation, its provinces lawless and plagued by roving gangs engaged in pillaging and crime, all authority flouted, the currency weakened, trade at a standstill, and poverty and violence rife everywhere? Why this collapse? What caused this reversal of fortune? It was mediocrity. The mediocrity of just a few kings, their vanity and self-importance, their frivolousness in the conduct of their affairs, their inability to attract talented advisors, their nonchalance, their presumptuousness, their failure to draw up grand designs or even to follow those already conceived.”
― Maurice Druon, The King Without a Kingdom