Citadel Quotes
36 quotes by 35 authors
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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
— Demades
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or…
— Pliny the Elder
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down…
— Homer
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that…
— Alan Garner
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
— Harry S. Truman
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I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
— Edwin Markham
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By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other…
— Christine O'Donnell
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The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is…
— Grover Cleveland
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What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be…
— Frances Wright
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The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens…
— Arthur Miller
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It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling…
— Ralph Maxwell
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As the ego becomes strong it starts surrounding intelligence like a thick layer of darkness. Intelligence is light, ego is darkness. Intelligence is very delicate,…
— Rajneesh
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At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing God intends you…
— Oswald Chambers
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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.
— James Joyce
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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who…
— Everett Dirksen
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The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The…
— Albert Martin
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Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Who Wrote These Citadel Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 36 Citadel Quotes, led by these top contributors: