Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

William Shakespeare

I was a coward on instinct.

Edith Piaf

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Charlotte Bronte

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Brent Weeks

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

B. C. Forbes

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Iyad Allawi

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Sean Howard

We won't stand for cowardly acts. We just want this rash of violence to end in our community.

Emily Bronte

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Duke of Wellington

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Confucius

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Cervantes Saavedra

True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.

Epictetus

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Ernest Hemingway

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Mohandas Gandhi

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Johnson

In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.