Conqueror Quotes
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Real glory Springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave.
— James Thomson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
rabindranath tagore— The Fourfold Way of India (1924); this has become paraphrased as "Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."
Real glorySprings from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave.
— James Thomson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 256
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act III, scene 1, line 87.
There was [in Spain] a civilization in many respects admirable. It was eminent for industry, science, art and poetry; its annals are full of romantic interests; it was in some respects superior to the Christian system which supplanted it; in many ways it contributed largely to the progress of the human race. (...) Yet because of the fundamental defect that between the Christians Spaniards and his Mussulman conqueror there could be no political fusion, this brilliant civilization was doomed.
— John Fiske, The Beginnings of New England (1889),Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p.11
First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our conqueror and Overlord.
john calvin— Page 40 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Conquerors are those like mewho have reached fermentations' end.I've conquered evil qualities,and so, Upaka, I'm a conqueror
— Ariyapariyesana Sutta
The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side — the side of corruption and prerogative.
william hazlitt— "Preface.htm"
Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.
edward jenks— Chapter III, Feudalism And Land Law, p. 27
The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.
francis parkman— Pt. I, Ch. 1
They agreed at least in earnest hate of that strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary, and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon— Chapter III: America and China
We have been determined . . . to so organize the peace-loving nations that they may through unity of desire, unity of will, and unity of strength be in position to assure that no other would-be aggressor or conqueror shall even get started. That is why from the very beginning of the war , and paralleling our military plans, we have begun to lay the foundations for the general organization for the maintenance of peace and security .
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, declared in 1944 the president of the United States. Quoted in the article Peace and Security—The Hope, in The Watchtower, October 1, 1985.
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
Isaac Asimov— Chapter 22 “Death on Neotrantor”
No conqueror returning from a victory on the battlefield has come home adorned with nobler laurels than M R CHAMBERLAIN from Munich yesterday, and K ING and people alike have shown by the manner of their reception their sense of his achievement.
neville chamberlain— "A New Dawn", The Times, 1 October 1938; opening words of the leader on the Munich Agreement.
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
john milton— Sonnet VIII: When the Assault was intended to the City.
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"
Plutarch— 48 Themistocles.
Conquerors are those like me who have reached fermentations' end. I've conquered evil qualities, and so, Upaka, I'm a conqueror
— Ariyapariyesana Sutta
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die as a man.
— Daniel Webster, p. 173. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail: A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
martin farquhar tupper— Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy, Of Faith, line 11.
Every man, noble and simple alike, should hold his land as a pledge of god behaviour. His duties, to King, lord, and neighbour, should be settled once and for all; and, if he failed in them, he should be turned out of his home and left to starve. It was a drastic scheme; but a conqueror holding a conquered country by the force of the sword cannot afford to be squeamish.
— Chapter III, Feudalism And Land Law, p. 27
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
George Bernard Shaw— Caesar, in Caesar and Cleopatra, act 2 (1901).
Whilst the exploits of the conqueror and the intrigues of the demagogue are faithfully preserved through a succession of ages, the persevering and unobtrusive efforts of genius, developing the best blessings of the Deity to man, are often consigned to oblivion.
— David Mushet cited in: Samuel Smiles (1864) Industrial biography; iron-workers and tool-makers, p. 189
Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God.
jean rostand— Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist (1939)
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
— Philip Faulconbridge, scene vii
That Julius Caesar was a famous man; With what his valour did enrich his wit, His wit set down to make his valour live: Death makes no conquest of this conqueror; For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
— Edward, Prince of Wales, scene i
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
idi amin— His full, formal title, which he conferred upon himself. Quoted inAfricana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came in with the conqueror.
— Richard Brome, The English Moor, Act II. 4.
Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard conqueror.
— Sly, scene I
