💬 Quotes

"To be a soldier is to know that you are a part of something larger than yourself, a part of a design."

"It is the great irony of the war: that the men who have the most to lose are the ones who are most willing to die."

"Work is a blessing, and we'd be very badly off without it, though we don't always think so when we are tired."

"Better to be laughed at for being old-fashioned than to lose one's self-respect by following every silly fashion that comes up."

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the name."

"Die Krone ist ein schweres Kleid, das oft mehr Dornen als Perlen birgt, und wer den Thron besteigt, muss lernen, auf dem Abgrund zu tanzen."

"Liebe und Politik sind Schwestern aus derselben finsteren Schmiede; beide dulden keine Nebenbuhler und fordern als Opfer das Herz."

"Was ist die Zeit anders als ein stummer Henker, der die stolzesten Reiche mit gleicher Hand zu Staub zermalmt?"

"Ein Weib von königlichem Blut beugt sich wohl dem Schicksal, aber niemals dem Sieger, denn ihr Geist bleibt freier als die Legionen Roms."

"Die Schönheit ist der Schlummer der Seele vor dem Sturm, eine Waffe schärfer als das stoßende Schwert, doch zerbrechlich wie Glas."

"Der Tod ist nicht das Ende des Ruhms, sondern das Siegel, das die Taten der Großen der Welt vor dem Vergilben bewahrt."

"He who is afraid of being hurt can never be truly alive."

"I have lived twenty-nine years with the Stirlings, and I've never really lived at all until now."

"There are a good many kinds of success. Some people think making money is success, and some think getting a title is success, and some think being good is success. But the best kind of success is to have lived the life you wanted to live."

"Do you know what it is to be shut up in a tomb? I've been shut up in one for twenty-nine years. The tomb was my mother's house."

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."

"Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."

"Pisanio, / I have heard of such a man, but the slave hath / A noble stock."

"Hang there like fruit, my soul, / Till the tree die!"

"El dinero puede comprar muchas cosas, pero no puede comprar la paz mental ni borrar el pasado."