💬 Quotes

"By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, / Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; / It yearns me not if men my garments wear; / Such outward things dwell not in my desires: / But if it be a sin to covet honour, / I am the most offending soul alive."

"He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, / Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, / And rouse him at the name of Crispian."

"It is a strange thing, this human life, made up as it is of inevitable woe and fleeting joy, yet wherein hope springs ever fresh, like water in a desert place."

"Vengeance is a hard master to serve, and those who take his wages find bitterness at the last, though the cup may seem sweet to the lips at first tasting."

"Fate leads us by strange roads, and often those we count our bitterest enemies are but the instruments forged to shape us to our true destiny."

"A brave man dies once, but a coward dies a thousand deaths in the quiet chambers of his own craven heart."

"There is a power greater than the gods of Anahuac or the God of Christendom, a power that binds the hearts of men together across the gulf of differing creeds and alien blood."

"Memory is the ghost that haunts the house of life, and of all memories, those of our lost youth and ancient wrongs are the most unfading."

"We are petty individuals, but we have the Law. And that's what makes us-men."

"Cain went out and built a city—yes, down the East, away from Eden; and that's all the use you'll ever have of empire-building."

"He has looked upon a woman. Man is a feeble thing."

"Beholding a king before them, they gave it to him... It's the order of the white man; he has more brains than they."

"You can't sell a man who knows he's all-powerful."

"Water does not mix with blood, and even the best of men are but dust in the scales of empire."

"He had that peculiar sort of high spirits which is nearly akin to madness, and that peculiar sort of solemnity which is nearest to a joke."

"We makeers of cities do not know what we are doing. We are building our Nothings smarter and grander; that is all."

"Quixote was not mad in the common sense; he was only wildly logical upon a point where everyone else was wildly illogical."

"It is the chief of all the terrors of man, a very comfortable terror, that nothing ever happens twice."

"Good counsel is not to be despised, even though it comes from a madman."

"What is the great world, but a place where suspicion passes for knowledge, and a smile is often the cloak of malice?"