1. Top Famous Quotes
    2. /
  2. Louis De Bernieres Quotes

Top Louis De Bernieres Quotes

Browse top 32 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Louis De Bernieres.

Favorite Louis De Bernieres Quotes

1. "In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones." ~ Louis De Bernieres
2. "Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality." ~ Louis De Bernieres
3. "Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation." ~ Louis De Bernieres
4. "The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier." ~ Louis De Bernieres
5. "The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry." ~ Louis De Bernieres
6. "What keeps me going is my children." ~ Louis De Bernieres
7. "An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so." ~ Louis De Bernieres
8. "Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy." ~ Louis De Bernieres
9. "Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous." ~ Louis De Bernières
10. "No man is a man until he has been a soldier." ~ Louis De Bernières
11. "The dead can read tears." ~ Louis De Bernières
12. "Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal." ~ Louis De Bernières
13. "Love delayed is lust augmented." ~ Louis De Bernières
14. "Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident." ~ Louis De Bernières
15. "Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid." ~ Louis De Bernières
16. "Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the Palaeolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors. The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other." ~ Louis De Bernières
17. "History is the propaganda of the victors." ~ Louis De Bernières
18. "I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point." ~ Louis De Bernières
19. "Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough." ~ Louis De Bernières
20. "Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It's fine for buildings, but if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impression that you ought to think it beautiful, but that in fact you find it cold. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry, Kyria Pelagia. Look at your face in a mirror, Signorina, and you will see that one eyebrow is a little higher than the other, that the set of the lid of your left eye is such that the eye is a fraction more open that the other. It is these things that make you both attractive and beautiful, whereas…otherwise you would be a statue. Symmetry is for God, not for us." ~ Louis De Bernières
21. "Your lips are like sugarAnd your cheeks an appleYour breasts are paradiseAnd your body a lily.O, to kiss the sugarTo bite the appleTo reveal paradiseAnd open the lily." ~ Louis De Bernières
22. "Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow." ~ Louis De Bernières
23. "Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?" ~ Louis De Bernières
24. "Women only nag when they feel unappreciated." ~ Louis De Bernières
25. "... so many nominal Christians throughout history, took no notice whatsoever of the key parable of Jesus Christ himself, which taught that you shall love your neighbour as you love yourself, and even those that you have despised and hated are your neighbours. This never made any difference to Christians, since the primary epiphenomena of any religion's foundation are the production and flourishment of hypocrisy, megalomania and psychopathy, and the first casualties of a religion's establishment are the intensions of its founders. One can imagine Jesus and Mohammed glumly comparing notes in paradise, scratching their heads and bemoaning their vain expense of effort and suffering, which resulted only in the construction of two monumental whited sepulchres. ..." ~ Louis De Bernières
26. "...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius." ~ Louis De Bernières
27. "Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world." ~ Louis De Bernières
28. "Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us, as inevitable as the fact that we all write poetry and the fact that every single one of us thinks that he knows everything that there is to know. We are all hospitable to strangers, we all are nostalgic for something, our mothers all treat their grown sons like babies, our sons all treat their mothers a sacred and beat their wives, we all hate solitude, we all try to find out from a stranger whether or not we are related, we all use every long word we know as often as we possibly can, we all go out for a walk in the evening so that we can look over each others' fences, we all think that we are equal to the best. Do you understand?"The captain was perplexed, "You didn't tell me about the two Greeks inside every Greek.""I didn't? Well, I must have wandered off the point." ~ Louis De Bernières
29. "The garden where you sitHas never a need of flowers,For you are the blossomsAnd only a fool or the blindWould fail to know it" ~ Louis De Bernières
30. "In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them." ~ Louis De Bernières
31. "Antonio, I speak to you from beyond the grave, in seriousness. I have loved you with all my shameful heart, as much as I once loved Francisco, and I have conquered any envy that I might have felt. If a dead man may have a wish, it is that you should find your future with Pelagia. She is beautiful and sweet, there is no one who deserves you more, and no one else worthy of you. I wish that you will have children together, and I wish that once or twice you will tell them about their Uncle Carlo that they never saw. As for me, I hoist my knapsack on my shoulders and buckle the webbing, I put my arm through the sling of my rifle, and I open the veil to march into the unknown as soldiers always will. Remember me.Carlo." ~ Louis De Bernières
32. "....I do not want you to believe any of this because it is all crap, but it is the crap in which the piles of our psuedo-European culture are embedded, so you had better understand it because no one who does not understand the history and taxonomy of crap will ever come to know the difference between crap and pseudocrap and noncrap...." ~ Louis De Bernières

Louis De Bernières Quotes Pictures

Louis De Bernières Quotes
Louis De Bernières Quotes
Louis De Bernières Quotes

Today's Quote

Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?"
Author: Cassandra Clare

What Did Louis De Bernières Talk About?

Wit
Hen
Con
Lit
Here
Thin
Child
Per
Pen
Hey
Ear
Use
Sin
Story
Once
Able
Both
Children
Beautiful
Die
Old
Soldier
Tan
Tell
Win
Ten
Thou
Ways
Sing
Ring
Dead
Cause
Equal
Hear
Heart
Ally
King
Less
Act
Open
Son

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Copyright © 2022 Top Famous Quotes. All Rights Reserved. | About Us | Topic List | Author List | Privacy Policy | Contact Us |