Quotes About Triumph

La dicha es como esos palacios de las islas encantadas, cuyas puertas guardan formidables dragones; preciso es combatir para conquistar

Albert seized it and put it victoriously into his buttonhole

E sei que do fundo do abismo onde os lançaram os seus inimigos se ergueram com tanto vigor e glória que dominaram o seu antigo vencedor e o derrubaram por seu turno.

Alexandre Dumas

Has not, they would say, this Cornelius de Witt been locked up and broken by the rack? Shall we not see him pale, streaming with blood, covered with shame? And was not this a sweet triumph for the burghers of the Hague, whose envy even beat that of the common rabble; a triumph in which every honest citizen and townsman might be expected to share?

aquella carrera le resultó beneficiosa en el sentido de que a medida que el sudor inundaba su frente su corazón se enfriaba.

Le bonheur est comme ces palais des îles enchantées dont les dragons gardent les portes. Il faut combattre pour le conquérir. Alexandre Dumas, Le comte de Monte-Cristo, chapitre 5

They had not been obliged by necessity to leave their country; the social position they abandoned was one to be regretted, and their means of subsistence were certain. Nor did they cross the Atlantic to improve their situation or to increase their wealth; the call which summoned them from the comforts of their homes was purely intellectual; and in facing the inevitable sufferings of exile their object was the triumph of an idea. The

This cannot harm you on this day. When you walk, you walk away. When you return, all your enemies will burn.

out from under the far side of the table

This was the kind of moral dilemma Pauline often got her into. Mr. Someone-or-Other, Pauline had mouthed. Adele at lunch with him, crying. But Mr. Who? She turned to her typewriter, Pauline's eyes still on her. She would like to ask "Who?"—but to do so, in that same mouthing whisper Pauline had used, would be to enter too fully into Pauline's tale, Pauline's bitter triumph, and, in some way, into Pauline's unhappy life. But Mr. Who?

Some womens can't be beat.

her first published book, Once (1965).

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Victory is sweet, but sweeter when your opponent is butt-ass naked in defeat.

The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.

Few things indeed,' mused Pike, 'seem to have so much appeal before, and so little after, as a battle.

I fought on horseback often enough. Charged small bodies of infantry, broke and pursued them. A noble business, cutting men down as they run, I earned all kinds of praise for it.

No one remembers how the fight was won. I won. No one cares how.

Patience is the parent of success.

Criminals made heroes by colossal success.

No corpses, no glory.

Enemies are the price of success