89 Quotes by Louis de Bernières

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

Love is what is left when the passion has gone

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

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.

the general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have 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. If you’re stupid you can always blame miscalculation on bad luck.

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.

A German plans a month in advance what is bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything retrospect, so it always looks as though everything is good as intended. The French glad everything was to be going to be having a party, and the Spanish… Well, God knows.

He did not ask me to shoot him; perhaps at the very end he loved his vanishing life.