Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I!

Beauty Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: Qu'elle est jolie

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It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

Enemies Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles

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In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray; Rosy and round as an apple is he, Content with the present whate'er it may be, While from care and from cash he is equally free, And merry both night and day! "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he, "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!" What a gay little man in gray.

Content Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: The Little Man all in Gray, (translation by Amelia B. Edwards)

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Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.

Soldiers Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: Le Roi d'Yvetor, (translation by Thackeray "The King of Brentford")

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Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

War Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: Les Gaulois et Francois, (C.L. Bett's translation)

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Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

Parting Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: L'Adieu, free translation

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Our friends, the enemy. [Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]

Enemies Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles

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Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

Age Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: Cinquante Ans.

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And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died. [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]

Royalty Quotes, by Pierre Jean de Beranger , Source: Le Roi Yvetot, rendering of Thackeray's "King of Brentford"

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