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Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
Georges Clemenceau— 1919 Speech at Verdun, 20 Jul.
To celebrate her eyes, her air Coarse panegyrics would but tease her. Melissa is her nom de guerre. Alas, who would not wish to please her!
thomas gray— 1750 A Long Story, l.33-6.
Votre plaisir g|"t de s honorer les femmes, et votre honneur tuer les hommes en guerre; qui sont deux points formellement contraires a' la loi de Dieu. Your pleasure lies in dishonouring women and your honour lies in killing men at war; two acts which stand in contradiction to the law of God.
Marguerite d'Angouleme— 1558 Heptame ron, pt.26.
Politique intérieure, je fais la guerre; politique extérieure, je fais la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre.
Georges Clemenceau— My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
— "Discours de Guerre" [Speech on War] Chambre des Députés, Assemblée Nationale, Paris (8 March 1918)
La guerre! C’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires.
Georges Clemenceau— War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
— Variant translation: War is too important a matter to be left to the military.As quoted in Soixante Anneés d'Histoire Française (1932) by Georges Suarez
Je n'entre qu'à moitié dans la guerre civile. Je veux bien y mourir, je ne veux pas y tuer.
victor hugo— I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.Histoire d'un crime (The History of a Crime) [written 1852, published 1877], Quatrième journée. La victoire, ch. II: Les Faits de la nuit. Quartier des Halles. Trans. T.H. Joyce and Arthur Locker
Ils faisaient à autrui ce qu'ils ne voulaient pas qu'on leur fît, principe immoral sur lequel repose tout l’art de la guerre.
jules verne— They did to others that which they would not they should do to them—that grand principle of immorality upon which rests the whole art of war.Ch. X: One Enemy v. Twenty-five Millions of Friends (Charles Scribner's Sons "Uniform Edition", 1890, p. 50)
Me voici devant tous un homme plein de sens Connaissant la vie et de la mort ce qu'un vivant peut connaître Ayant éprouvé les douleurs et les joies de l'amour Ayant su quelquefois imposer ses idées Connaissant plusieurs langages Ayant pas mal voyagé Ayant vu la guerre dans l'Artillerie et l'lnfanterie Blessé à la tête trépané sous le chloroforme Ayant perdu ses meilleurs amis dans l'effroyable lutte Je sais d'ancien et de nouveau autant qu'un homme seul pourrait des deux savoir
guillaume apollinaire— You see before you a man in his right mind
Worldly-wise and with access to death
Having tested the sorrow of love and its ecstasies
Having sometimes even astonished the professors
Good with languages
Having travelled a great deal
Having seen battle in the Artillery and the Infantry
Wounded in the head trepanned under chloroform
Having lost my best friends in the butchery
As much of antiquity and modernity as can be known I know"La jolie rousse" (The Pretty Redhead), line 1; p. 133.
Qui a le profit de la guerre, il en a l'honneur.
philippe de commines— He who has the profits of war has the honour.Bk. IV, ch. 4.
Ne le guerre d’Amore Amor (proverbio è trito,) Vince chi fugge, e non chi si cimenta.
niccolò forteguerri— XXVIII, 27.Translation: In love’s engagements (sure the proverb’s trite)
He wins who flies, not he who stays to fight.Translation reported in Harbottle’s Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 379.
The world has recently been treated for nearly a decade to the unusual spectacle of a great empire deliberately taking every possible step to secure its own destruction, because its citizens were so obsessed by prejudice, or incapable of thinking for themselves, as never to perform the few logical steps necessary for proving that they would shortly be involved in a guerre à outrance , which could be neither averted nor escaped.
enoch powell— Powell's inaugural lecture as Professor of Greek (7 May 1938), from Greek in the University. An Inaugural Lecture (Oxford University Press, 1938), p. 9.
Et guerre faicte sans bonne provision d'argent, n'a qu'un souspirail de vigueur. Les nerfz des batailles sont les pecunes.
françois rabelais— War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.Chapter 44.
Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau— Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (French), Sixième partie, Lettre VII Réponse (1761)Julie, or The New Heloise (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560
Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
jean-paul sartre— Translation: When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist. ("L'antagonisme entre les nationalités perdra toute son acuité le jour où n'existera plus la tendance inique à l'oppression et à la domination, ni le perpétuel danger des menaçants préparatifs de guerre.:;», Fr. ")
african spir— p. 54 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
La guerre n'était donc plus ce noble et commun élan d'âmes amantes de la gloire qu'il s'était figuré d'après les proclamations de Napoléon!
stendhal— War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.Ch. 3
La France a perdu une bataille, mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre.
— Translated: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war".
— Charles de Gaulle, Proclamation, June 18 1940.
Qui a le profit de la guerre, il en a l'honneur.
— He who has the profits of war has the honour.
— Bk. IV, ch. 4.
Ne le guerre d’Amore Amor (proverbio è trito,) Vince chi fugge, e non chi si cimenta.
— XXVIII, 27.
— Translation: In love’s engagements (sure the proverb’s trite)
He wins who flies, not he who stays to fight.
— Translation reported in Harbottle’s Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 379.
guerre aux cha" teaux, paix aux chaumie' res. War to the castles, peace to the cottages.
— 1790 Motto for the Revolution.
At Paris Novelist Henri Barbusse, winner of the Prix Goncourt with his pen and the Croix de guerre with his sword, occupies a position unique and anomalous. He is always bringing some unpleasant fact to light, and his genius is always just sufficient to make the expose nauseatingly unforgettable. With such a man what is to be done?
henri barbusse— "Again, Barbusse" in TIME magazine (12 April 1926)
