Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

Walter Savage Landor

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

Walter Savage Landor

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Walter Scott

Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens

Walter Isaacson

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

Yitzhak Rabin

[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

Winston Churchill

872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

Winston Churchill

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Winston Churchill

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Winston Churchill

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Winston Churchill

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Winston Churchill

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Winston Churchill

We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old - Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host? - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people".

William Law

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

William J. H. Boetcker

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Virginia Woolf

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

Vinnie Jones

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

Woodrow Wilson

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Woodrow Wilson

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

William Wycherley

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

William Wordsworth

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

William Wordsworth

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

William Shenstone

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

William J. Clinton

Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come.

William J. Clinton

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

Sarah Rees Brennan

She was kind of in love with him.

Sarah Bernhardt

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Samuel Pepys

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Samuel Rogers

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

Samuel Smiles

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.

William Ellery Channing

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Willard Scott

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.