Louis De Bernières Quotes

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

He frowned and tutted as he swabbed the vomit from the man's robes, and transferred his irritation to Pelagia's goat, which had entered the room and leapt up onto the table. 'Stupid brute' he shouted at it, and it looked at him impudently with its slotted eyes, as if to say, 'I, at least, am not drunk. I am merely mischievous.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

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.

No man is a man until he has been a soldier.

Money has no religion except itself.

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.