Maurice Druon quotes

Maurice Druon was a French novelist, historian, and politician, recognized for his influential works in literature. His most famous creation is the historical series "The Accursed Kings," which is often described as "the French Game of Thrones." He also served as a member and later as permanent secretary of the Académie Française. Here are 8 of his quotes:

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

Maurice Druon

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

Maurice Druon

I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.

Maurice Druon

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

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 to let the Universe remain unfinished.

Maurice Druon

Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.

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 no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

Maurice Druon