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)
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes Intulit agresti Latio. Captive Greece overcame her savage conqueror and brought the arts into rustic Latium.
— Epistulae, bk.2, no.1, l.156-7.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary, and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon— 1930 Last and First Men, ch.3.
Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.
idi amin— Quoted in The Evil 100 (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78
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
How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?
lucius cornelius sulla— To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in "Sylla" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller— Panegyric to My Lord Protector (or Panegyric on Cromwell).
No conqueror returning from a victory on the battlefield had come adorned with nobler laurels.
— Opening words of Leader column referring to Neville Chamberlain's negotiation of the Munich agreement, 1 October 1938.
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.
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
rabindranath tagore— In 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".
No conqueror returning from a victory on the battlefield had come adorned with nobler laurels.
— Opening words of Leader column referring to Neville Chamberlain's negotiation of the Munich agreement, 1 October 1938.
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.
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
How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?
— To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in "Sylla" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden
No other man on record has ever so thoroughly united all the virtues both of the ruler and of the private man. In no other man on record were so many virtues disfigured by so little alloy. A saint without superstition , a scholar without ostentation, a warrior all whose wars were fought in the defence of his country, a conqueror whose laurels were never stained by cruelty , a prince never cast down by adversity , never lifted up to insolence in the day of triumph – there is no other name in history to compare with his.
— Edward A. Freeman, in The History of the Norman Conquest of England (1867-76) Vol. 1, pp. 51-2
The “conqueror of Berlin,” as he [Joseph Goebbels] has named himself, has completely conquered Germany. And not only that. Unfortunately, many, all too many Germans living abroad, also have fallen for the cunning propaganda.
friedrich kellner— October 14, 1939; Vol. 1, p. 40
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
thomas carlyle— Bk. II, ch. 8.
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.
Robertson Davies— One Half of Robertson Davies (1989)
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the conqueror Worm.
edgar allan poe— "The Conqueror Worm" (1843), st. 5.
