The Da Vinci Code Quotes

“Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Misunderstanding breeds distrust,”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“This icon is formally known as the blade, and it represents aggression and manhood. In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank.” “Indeed.” Teabing grinned. “The more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.” “Not the Son of God?” “Right,” Teabing said. “Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Transmogrification,” Langdon said. “The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual—the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of “God-eating”—were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Professor Langdon?’ A male student at the back raised his hand, sounding hopeful. ‘Are you saying that instead of going to chapel, we should have more sex?’ Langdon chuckled, not about to take the bait. From what he’d heard about Harvard parties, these kids were having more than enough sex.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“The blind see what they want to see.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Most tourists mistranslated Jardins des Tuileries as relating to the thousands of tulips that bloomed here, but Tuileries was actually a literal reference to something far less romantic. This park had once been an enormous, polluted excavation pit from which Parisian contractors mined clay to manufacture the city’s famous red roofing tiles—or tuiles.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Tuileries Gardens—Paris’s own version of Central Park.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“The world had gone mad, and in may parts of Europe, advertising your love of Jesus Christ was like painting a bull's-eye on the roof of your car.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him. He incorporated in may of his Christian paintings hidden symbolism that was anything but Christian - tributes to his own beliefs and a subtle thumbing of his nose at the Church.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“وسطع النور بعد الظلام.”
― دان براون, The Da Vinci Code

“Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female. And that, my friends, is Da Vinci’s little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa’s knowing smile.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment—its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games’ spirit of inclusion and harmony.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed. Meditation gurus achieved similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described Nirvana as a never-ending spiritual orgasm.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“History is always written by the winners...By its very nature, its always a one-sided account”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Fache will do what no one else dares.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Robert? You wake me up and you charge me for it?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Sofi pogleda Langdona, ne znajuci da li se vratila kroz vreme ili je krocila u ludnicu”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“I dok je Gete opisivao arhitekturu kao zamrznutu muziku, kriticari su ovu piramidu opisivali kao skripanje noktiju po skolskoj tabli”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Despite for a monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches -- smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Symbols carry different meanings in different settings. - Robert Langdon”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Mitterrand was a bold man,” Langdon replied, splitting the difference. The late French president who had commissioned the pyramid was said to have suffered from a “Pharaoh complex.” Singlehandedly responsible for filling Paris with Egyptian obelisks, art, and artifacts, François Mitterrand had an affinity for Egyptian culture that was so all-consuming that the French still referred to him as the Sphinx.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code