--- title: "1 Wealth Mean Quotes By Walter Lord" description: "1 Wealth Mean quotes by Walter Lord. Plus more from Walter Lord and more Wealth Mean sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/walter-lord-25430_first-time_the-titanic-woke-them-up-never-again-wou_3190762.jpg" --- > [“The Titanic woke them up. Never again would they be quite so sure of themselves. In technology especially, the disaster was a terrible blow. Here was the "unsinkable ship" -- perhaps man's greatest engineering achievement -- going down the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/the-titanic-woke-them-up-never-again-would-they-be-quite-so-sure-of/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/149/walter-lord-25430_first-time_the-titanic-woke-them-up-never-again-wou_3190762.jpg) ## More by Walter Lord > [“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/seen-and-unseen-the-great-and-the-unknown-tumbled-together-in-a/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [“Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/robertson-called-his-ship-the-titan-the-white-star-line-called-its/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [“It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/it-is-a-rash-man-indeed-who-would-set-himself-up-as-final-arbiter-on/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [“Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/before-the-titanic-all-was-quiet-afterward-all-was-tumult-that-is-why/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/it-would-be-nice-to-say-the-rich-people-the-fancy-people-all-behaved/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [“The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/the-night-was-a-magnificent-confirmation-of-women-and-children-first/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/someone-once-told-me-the-one-thread-that-runs-through-them-all-is-a/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/the-ones-that-measure-up-are-not-always-the-ones-you-expect/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [“Gentry crept out. There, stuck in the slime a few feet away, was a huge unexploded bomb. It was about the size of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/gentry-crept-out-there-stuck-in-the-slime-a-few-feet-away-was-a-huge/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/you-have-to-study-the-people-and-the-ones-that-measure-up-are-not/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/brilliantly-lit-from-stem-to-stern-she-looked-like-a-sagging-birthday/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [“This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/this-was-the-era-when-gentlemen-formally-offered-their-services-to/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/it-s-a-funny-thing-but-today-the-titanic-is-probably-much-more-that/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [“Overriding everything else, the Titanic also marked the end of a general feeling of confidence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/overriding-everything-else-the-titanic-also-marked-the-end-of-a/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) > [There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lord/there-were-exceptions-a-couple-of-families-that-just-plain-didn-t/) [Walter Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lord/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wealth-mean/walter-lord/#itemlist", "name": "1 Wealth Mean Quotes By Walter Lord", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Titanic woke them up. 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