Jeanne d'Arc - Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
Various quotes from film, historians, authors, writers

Quotes from the Film: The Messenger.
Aulon: But how do you know that these voices aren't just really you?

Jeanne: They are me. That's how God speaks to me. Even you could hear them if you listened hard enough.

Aulon: "JEANNE!
Jeanne: "Wh-- why are you looking at me like that?"
Aulon: "Because there's an arrow in your leg!"
Jeanne: "What? Oh... well that's hardly a reason for you to stop climbing, is it? ...You! Take this arrow out of my leg!"

Priest: "You seem a little wealthy to be a simple peasant, don't you think?"
Jeanne: "You seem a little wealthy to be a servant of God."

The Conscience: "Who are you to even think that you can know the difference between good and evil?"

Jeanne: "I am the drum on which God is beating out his message."

Jeanne: "How dare you stop me from doing God's will?"
Aulon: "He didn't tell you to cut all your hair."
Jeanne: "How dare you tell me what God tells me to do?"
Aulon: "Whatever, but since he's not going to come down and do it himself -- I mean -- at least let someone cut it properly!"
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Quotes taken from the CBS Mini-Series Joan Of Arc [1999]:
Jeanne: Why are you punishing me for talking to God?

Bishop Cauchon: As His Majesty's church-appointed spiritual advisor, I advise His Majesty not to take lightly the advice of his church-appointed spiritual advisor.

Bishop Cauchon: Poor, deluded Jeanne. She has no idea the monster she has put on the throne. These are my last words to you as your spiritual advisor, Your Majesty.

Jeanne: Come out, that I might send you to hell!

Noel: Jeanne d'Arc was a TRUE PATRIOT of her homeland, France. "To the good French people of every town and village, who need shelter or fear attack. Come and be protected within the walls of Vacouleurs and help build defenses against those who would destroy us, by dictate of The Maid of Lorraine."

Noel: "She's no fairy tale. She's flesh and blood. A maid from this very region!"

Jeanne: "I tell you, Emile, I look in front of me and all I see is France. So, how can Burgundy claim this part and England that part, when it's all France, and we're all French. France should be whole."

Jeanne: "You must have faith, my dauphin and the people of France will follow"........"God wants you to be king, my dauphin."

Jeanne: "My mission continues"

Sister Babette: "Who knows how God chooses His soldiers? Look at us !"

Jeanne: "Be of good heart my friends. Today our noble king will have a great victory, because we are guided by the King of Heaven. We're all in God's hands, even those who choose to think otherwise. FOR GOD AND FRANCE !"

Jeanne: "I'm not pretending, sir. I'm here by the Will of God, with the Authority of the King, and the Blessings of the Church, and I say that the people of Orleans MUST be fed!"

Jeanne: "Gladsdale! Come out! That I might send you to hell!"

Jeanne: "Saint Catherine is my patron saint. She speaks to me."

"The valley is charming; a dazzling flood is played fires of the day it: it is the Meuse." [Domremy]
-Saint-Yves of Alverydre.
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"However, France lay with the tomb! Of its glory, Which did remain? In the West, a ballot box in tears: the Loire; A shade, in the East: Dauphiné."
-Saint-Yves of Alverydre.
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"With the noise of Angelus which sounds, Its celestial memory is vibrating and lives a gain."
-Saint-Yves of Alverydre.
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"Upright, the eyes in tears, it lends the ear With some messenger of the skies!"
-Paul Allard.
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"I leave. Good-bye, you whom I loved!"
-P. Allard.
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"Walk on boldly, the victory will follow."
-Paul Allard.
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"Entering Orleans, which it was large and beautiful! The quivering soldiers pressed themselves around it, The mothers tightened their children to him to be blessed, And all were prosternaient by seeing it coming."
-Paul Allard.
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"I come to return to the dolphin it kingdom of France"
-Saint-Yves of Alverydre.
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"That which God chooses for a holy task, soldier liberator, priest, apostle or martyr, must strengthen its heart, choke very felt sorry for;
It is beautiful to fight; it is large to suffer."
-Paul Allard.
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"But I enter while quivering this darkness! How is made, ô my God, your holy will!"
-P. Allard.
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"Of Christ with heat, Jeanne kissed the image."
-Cassimir Delavigne.
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"Glory in our immortal France! Glory with those which died for it, With valiant, the martyrs, the forts!"
-Victor Hugo.
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"O ground of granite, covered with oaks!"
-Brizeux.
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"When all seems darkened, the faith, manners, laws, Of Jeanne, at the horizon, the white star goes up: Let us can raise towards it and our eyes and our voices."
-Paul Allard.
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"The principal merit of the victory was allocated to the Virgin."
-Colonel E. ColletO.
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"We think in England which Jeanne is largest heroin that the world saw, and we regret what was made and which was badly made."
-Edward Clarke.
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"Consider this unique and imposing distinction. Since the writing of human history began, Jeanne d'Arc is the only person, of either sex, who has ever held supreme command of the military forces of a nation at the age of seventeen"
-Louis Kossuth.
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Jeanne's Victory over the English at Oleans.
" The eyes of all Europe were turned towards this scene, where it was reasonably supposed the French were to make their last stand for maintaining the independence of their monarchy and the rights of their sovereign."
-Hume.
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" Jeanne was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years"
-Winston Churchill
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