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Victory: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.— LONGFELLOW — The Ladder of St. Augustine. St. 1.
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, 66 Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."— POPE — Horace. Bk. II. Ep. II. L. 216.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 217.
O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice? Measure for Measure: Act III. Sc. 1. L. 137. O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot, And all things turn to fair that eyes can see!— Shakespeare — Sonnet XCV.
There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. S.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 81.
Vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eyes, to spread itself.— Shakespeare — Pericles. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 97.
The victory of endurance born.— BRYANT — The Battle-Field. St. 8.
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.— BURNS — Tam o' Shanter.
Who thought he 'ad won The field as certain as a gun.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 11.
Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave, Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save; So peace instead of death let us bring; But yield, proud foe, thy fleet, With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our King. CAMPBELL The Battle of the Baltic. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.— EMILY DICKINSON — Poems. Success.
Ed. 1891 They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.— W. L. MARCY — Speech in the United
States Senate. 1832. Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 648.
Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover! C.— MOORE — Battle Song.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.— OLIVER HAZARD PERRY — Letter to
Gen. Harrison after the Victory on Lake Erie. Sept. 10, 1813. But if We have such another victory, we are undone. Attributed to PYRRHUS by BACON- Apothegms. No. 193. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms.— POPE — Horace. Bk. II. Ep. I. L. 263.
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances.— SCOTT — Lady of the Lake. Canto II. St. 19.
With dying hand, above his head, He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted "Victory!— Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion. ScoTT-Marmion. Canto VI. St. 32. A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 8.
I came, saw, and overcame.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 45.
Then with the losers let it sympathize; For nothing can seem foul to those that win.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 8.
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 1.
To whom God will, there be the victory!— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 15.
"But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory."— SOUTHEY — Battle of Blenheim.
La victoire me suit, et tout suit la victoire. Victory follows me, and all things follow victory.— SCUDÉRI — L'Amour Tyrannique.