Quotes About Vanquished
Even victors are by victories undone.
~ John Dryden
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Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
~ Voltaire
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She is defeated, and her husband is vanquished. But everyone knows that she will not accept her defeat, she will plot and scheme for her son, just as Edward told me that I must plot and scheme for ours. She will never stop until she is back in England and the battle is drawn up again. She will never stop until her husband is dead, her son is dead, and she has no one left to put on the throne. This is what it means to be Queen of England in this country today. This
~ Philippa Gregory
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Harold's Bow and Food Bowl bowl bowl bowl Food food food food The miracle of the heavenly restaurant I mouth this great dark sad evening Suddenly they come for me in a limousine How could I have believed I was vanquished I never lay slain I am the victor this parade is for me Now they have led me to the doors of God Long ago and forever I was in this place on the other side of eating where I am full and the empty bowl is beautiful -- from Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
~ Denis Johnson
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subdue it at all.° Then you saw the damsel sprinkle the room with water, after which it was pleasingly cleansed. This is to show you the way in which the gospel comes into the heart with its sweet and precious influences. You saw the damsel clear the dust from the room by sprinkling the floor with water. This shows how sin is vanquished and subdued and the soul made clean through faith and consequently fit for the King of glory to inhabit.
~ John Bunyan
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Losers don't get to talk, man.
~ Greg Hardy
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The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.
~ Theodor Adorno
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The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the vanquished pleased Cato.
~ Unknown
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Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone.
~ Martin Luther
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Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.
~ Mary Renault
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Man has not really vanquished shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghost or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit
~ Max Stirner
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The Art of Peace is the principle of nonresistance. Because it is nonresistant it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. The Art of Peace is invincible because it contends with nothing.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
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Gentleness, good treatment, honor the victor and dishonor the vanquished, who should remain aloof and owe nothing to pity In war, audacity is the finest calculation of genius.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
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We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
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