Waterloo Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them… — Carl Sandburg
Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too. — Michele Bachmann
You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were… — Paul H. Dunn
If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him and we will show that we… — Jim DeMint
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo, — Lord Acton
Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo! — P. G. T. Beauregard
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of… — Eben Moglen
So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo? — Victor Davis Hanson
History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would… — Henry Bromell
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all. — Carl Sandburg
You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every man meets his Waterloo at last. — Wendell Phillips
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the… — W. S. Gilbert
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. — Duke of Wellington
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by… — Lord Byron
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second — Victor Hugo
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of… — Holland Smith
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do… — Charles de Lint
The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama. — Rush Limbaugh

Who Wrote These Waterloo Quotes

28 authors contributed a total of 30 Waterloo Quotes, led by these top contributors: