Mirabeau Quotes & Sayings

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

The little wisdom that the world possesses, was introduced by lunatics. — Honore-Gabriel Riqueti De Mirabeau

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,
myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould. — Georges Danton

She nodded, but Tiny was still holding her arm, and he asked uncertainly, "Are you sure you want to do this, Beau? It sounds painful."
"Not as painful as the turn," she said solemnly.
"And I'd go through this and a lot more to keep you as my life mate. — Lynsay Sands

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Mirabeau: "If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our seats only at bayonet point. The King can cause us to be killed; tell him we all await death; but he need not hope that we shall separate until we have made the constitution."
Audible only to his neighbor, he adds, "If they come, we bugger off, quick. — Hilary Mantel

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau — Michelle Moran

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary! — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Never let me hear that foolish word again. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, — Mirabeau B. Lamar

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Not kings alone
the people, too, have their flatterers. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

War is the national industry of Prussia. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Nothing is impossible to the man who will — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette

Religion is no more national than conscience. — Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires. — Mirabeau B. Lamar

Talking to Robespierre, one tried to make the right noises; but what is right, these days? Address yourself to the militant, and you find a pacifist giving you a reproachful look. Address yourself to the idealist, and you'll find that you've fallen into the company of a cheerful, breezy professional politician. Address yourself to means, and you'll be told to think of ends: to ends, and you'll be told to think of means. Make an assumption, and you will find it overturned; offer yesterday's conviction, and today you'll find it shredded. What did Mirabeau complain of? He believes everything he says. Presumably there was some layer of Robespierre, some deep stratum, where all the contradictions were resolved. — Hilary Mantel

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution. — E. M. Forster