Quotes About Defeat

Gli italiani perdono le partite di calcio come se fossero guerre e perdono le guerre come se fossero partite di calcio.

George stared across the street. 'There is only one trouble with the Poldarks,' he said after a moment. 'They cannot take a beating.' 'And only one trouble with the Warleggans,' said Ross. 'They never know when they are not wanted.' George's color deepened. 'But they can appreciate and remember an insult.' 'Well, I trust you will remember this one.' Ross turned his back and went down the steps into the tavern.

si odiano sempre i testimoni della propria umiliazione e della propria inutilità. [...]

But moral argument is the most potent force in the world, Captain. It was that more than force of arms that defeated us in America.

I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.

En aquellos días duros, la derrota no era juzgada con indulgencia por los extenuados aliados y todos tuvimos que sobreponernos a ello, con cortesía que apenas velaba el menosprecio y con simpatía que apenas dominaba al resentimiento. Y he de rendir aquí un tributo a la dignidad y al valor tranquilo del ministro italiano y al respeto que supo inspirar a todos en aquellas tristes circunstancias.

I saw quite plainly that Communism would be the peril civilisation would have to face after the defeat of Nazism and Fascism.

No prize was to reward the sacrifices of the combatants. Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

The sufferings and impoverishment of peoples might arrest their warfare, the collapse of the defeated might still the cannonade, but their hatreds continue unappeased and their quarrels are still unsettled.

I never had any doubts about it, for I saw quite plainly that Communism would be the peril civilisation would have to face after the defeat of Nazism and Fascism.

Ten million homes awaited the return of the warriors. A hundred cities prepared to acclaim their triumphs. But all were defeated; all were stricken; everything that they had given was given in vain. The hideous injuries they inflicted and bore, the privations they endured, the grand loyalties they exemplified, all were in vain. Nothing was gained by any.

In War: Resolution In Defeat: Defiance In Victory: Magnanimity In Peace: Good Will

in mortal war anger must be subordinated to defeating the main immediate enemy.

It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See

The Germans met them in overwhelming strength, and furious fighting began. All but five of the landing party were killed or captured.

It marked in fact the turning of "the Hinge of Fate". It may almost be said, "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed.   At

Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time.

The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers!

I can say without exaggeration that I "devoted myself" to literature. For me, literature is not a matter of a career and future monuments but the excavating from myself of the maximum value of which I am capable. If it were to turn out that that which I write is inconsequential, then I am defeated not only as a writer but as a man.

This machine kills fascists.

La adversidad es una carambola imposible. Una chuza robada por el diablo. Un triste logaritmo inoperante. Pienso que la conozco, y ella a mí, pero seguro estoy exagerando. Dudo que sea digno de que La Adversidad me vea de frente y pronuncie mi nombre.

I would force myself again and again to guard against my own overeagerness. Such self-control was crucial, for many times it led to great victories when self-indulgence might have led to defeats.

even if we only gain a psychological advantage, that can mean the difference between victory and defeat. I'm reminded of the words of my father the king, who says that battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength." Syazarees