Pierre Daninos famous quotes

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.
-- Pierre Daninos

#Feet #Inferiority #Soil

The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.
-- Pierre Daninos

#Animal #Ostriches #Bird

If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!
-- Pierre Daninos

#Dog #Believe #Animal

English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.
-- Pierre Daninos

#Names #Achievement #Feelings

To a gentleman, a gentleman-someone who dies without ever pronouncing the word-is a man who climbs Everest, never mentions it to a soul, and listens politely to Pochet's account of how in 1937 in spite of his sciatica, he conquered the Puy de Dome.
-- Pierre Daninos

#Men #Soul #Gentleman

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.

I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!