Battle Lost Quotes
- Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. — Duke of Wellington
- The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won. — Simon Schama
- Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. — Duke of Wellington
- Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation,… — Frederick Douglass
- Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won. — Robert Jordan
- That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost, — William Butler Yeats