Joan Of Arc

Quotes

• “Jean Gerson, scholar, educator, reformer and poet, and Chancellor of the University of Paris. Gerson was also one of the...”
• “Yes, it's true. It's true that Joan of Arc was my dream as a little girl. I discovered her toward the age of ten or twel...”
• “They burned her cruelly to death in the marketplace of Rouen, with eight hundred soldiers round the stake, lest any shou...”
• “If I were Joan of Arc I would become governor of Puerto Rico and make my island a state - and then become president of t...”
• “[O]ne of the great ideas of her whom Villon calls "the good lass of Lorraine" had been the reconciliation of the French ...”
• “Joan of Arc was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that ...”
• “Official orators have agreed amongst themselves to leave out one essential point: that to undertake the liberation of th...”
• “Not infrequently even the soldiers and politicians who were fondest of Joan did not wish to listen to her. Nearly always...”
• “Et dixit quod dictum parvorum puerorum est quod aliquando homines bene suspenduntur pro dicendo veritatem, And she said ...”
• “You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wro...”
• “Joan of Arc fought for her country, she was successful, but she was too strong, too uppity, and no woman could do those ...”
• “Who in the moment of victory remains inaccessible to vanity and hate, who in the midst of popular enthusiasm lives in hu...”
• “I know this now. Every man gives his life to what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometim...”
• “One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, a...”
• “I have always responded to challenges, followed apocalyptical personalities, apostles, Rasputins, Joan of Arcs who hear ...”
• “Third public examination (24 February 1431); part of this testimony has sometimes been paraphrased: If I am not in the s...”
• “...you shall never hold the Kingdom of France from God, the King of Heaven, the son of St. Mary; but King Charles, the t...”
• “Mark Twain, in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte(1896), p. 7; a novel presented as a tr...”
• “A portion of the final sentence pronounced on Joan after her trial, as quoted in The Trial of Jeanne D'arc (1931), by Pi...”
• “As quoted by Jean Toutmouille during the retrial after her execution (5 March 1449), as quoted in Jeanne d'Arc, maid of ...”
• “An anonymous English soldier after the execution, as quoted in Fools, Martyrs, Traitors : The Story of Martyrdom in the ...”
• “I do not fear men-at-arms; my way has been made plain before me. If there be men-at-arms my Lord God will make a way for...”
• “If Joan had been malicious, selfish, cowardly, or stupid, she would have been one of the most odious persons known to hi...”
• “Indira Gandhi. quoted in Oriana Fallaci. (2011). Interview with Indira Gandhi, in : Interviews with history and conversa...”
• “Joanni, Joanni wears a golden crossAnd she looks so beautiful in her armourJoanni, Joanni blows a kiss to GodAnd she nev...”
• “Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France,...”
• “If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any o...”
• “As given in The Life of Joan of Arc (1909) by Anatole France, tr. Winifred Stevens, vol. i, p. 97, referencing Trials, v...”
• “Elena Poniatowska "A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids" in The Writer on Her Work (1992), translated from Spanish by ...”
• “George Bernard Shaw, in his prologue to Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923) - Full text o...”
• “Charles Maurras, Action Française (12 May 1929), quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 16...”
• “And now I know how Joan of Arc felt Now I know how Joan of Arc felt As the flames rose to her And her started to melt”
• “The courage of Joan of Arc was made the subject of a popular lecture not long ago by one of our intelligent citizens.”
• “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.”
• “George Bernard Shaw, of Joan's martyrdom, in Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)”
• “Médailles Jeanne d'Arc · French site containing pictures and descriptions of Medallions devoted to Joan of Arc”
• “Variant translation: There is a saying among children that sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.”
• “Jehanne... If you come from God, I do not fear you … if you come from the Devil, I fear you even less.”
• “Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!”
• “It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still; is not this lawful for all prisoners?”
• “She is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.”
• “Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.”
• “Andrew Lang, in The Story of Joan of Arc (1906), Ch. 1 : The Childhood of Joan of Arc”
• “Margaret Atwood, "We Hang by a Thread" (2016), essay collected in Burning Questions”
• “St. Joan of Arc Center of Albuquerque, New Mexico, maintained by Virginia Frohlick”
• “Online collection founded in 1997. Displayed for educational or research purposes”
• “Constable de Richemont, who went on to serve at her side in the Battle of Patay.”
• “Andrew Lang, in The Story of Joan of Arc (1906), Ch. 18 : The End of the Maid”
• “Joan of Lorraine, (Washington, D.C.: Anderson House, 1947), Maxwell Anderson”
• “Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.”