Conqueror Quotes

159 quotes by 131 authors

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror. — Jean Rostand
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate,… — James Buchan
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My… — George Bernard Shaw
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror. — Andre Malraux
In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United… — William Jennings Bryan
Life yields only to the conqueror. — Dag Hammarskjold
Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on… — Ashraf Ghani
You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure. — John Lithgow
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's… — Jean Anouilh
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. — Charles Alexander Eastman
My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family,… — Celia Imrie
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors. — Plautus
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. — Francis Quarles
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the… — Jules Michelet
That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad. — Olaf Stapledon
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley… — Theodore Roosevelt
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and… — Jawaharlal Nehru

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