In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.

—Georges Clemenceau

About Georges Clemenceau

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Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end...

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There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

—Georges Clemenceau

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

—Georges Clemenceau

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

—Georges Clemenceau

More quotations tagged with “actions”

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

—Florence Nightingale

An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

—Edmund Burke

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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