victorious quotes

Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a'   ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious. '

- Honore   de Balzac
La Recherche de l'absolu.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

-Thomas Carlyle
  Signs of the Times.

For who knows not that Truth is strong next to the Almighty? She needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.