It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat…

“Life has vanquished death and even the furniture celebrates.”

— Salman Rushdie

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

— Statius

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives…

— Genghis Khan

“beautiful granddaughter at his side, guarding it like a pair of faithful watchdogs. Although they were all nearly at the end of their tether,…

— Wilbur Smith

All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The vanquished themselves prove that history has not lied; like tourists in hell, they took snapshots.

— Theodore Strauss

I believe that history is written by the victors, but what about the vanquished? They also have a story to tell.

— Puneet Issar

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

— Ovid

The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask…

— Chris Hedges

“the Lord vanquished the devil in my heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.

— Alastair Reynolds

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating…

— Felix Adler

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

— Miles Franklin