Quotations From GEORGES BERNANOS

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• 1.

  Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 4 (1936).
• 2.

  It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 7 (1936).
  
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• 3.

  No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 7 (1936).
• 4.

  What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 4 (1936).
  
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• 5.

  Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 4 (1936).
  
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• 6.

  A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Curé de Torcy, in The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 2 (1936).
  
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• 7.

  What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. Madame la Comtesse, in The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 5 (1936).
  
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• 8.

  It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. M. Olivier, in The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 7 (1936).
  
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• 9.

  Faith is not a thing which one "loses," we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. The Diary of a Country Priest, ch. 4 (1936).
  
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• 10.

  The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

  Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French novelist, political writer. "Why Freedom?" The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos (1955).