Inglorious Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. — Napoleon Bonaparte
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos
An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war. — Mark Twain
Thereâ€™s this thing called progress. But it doesnâ€™t progress. It doesnâ€™t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. Itâ€™s progress if… — Graham Swift
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army… — Jefferson Davis
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never… — Thomas Paine
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of… — Thomas Gray
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly… — Claude McKay
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a… — H. L. Mencken
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and… — Bill Vaughan
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life… — Michel de Montaigne
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human… — Aberjhani
War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps… — Eugene B. Sledge
What is this?â€ he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. â€œThisâ€¦ thisâ€¦ thing?â€ â€œA parsnip?â€… — Cassandra Clare
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too.… — John Green

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