Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Druon

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.

French - Novelist | April 23, 1918 - April 14, 2009

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

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

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

Maurice Druon

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Maurice Druon

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to 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

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

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

Maurice Druon

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Druon

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