Waterloo Quotes
30 Waterloo quotes by 28 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo,
— Lord Acton
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Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!
— P. G. T. Beauregard
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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
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So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?
— Victor Davis Hanson
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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
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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.
— Carl Sandburg
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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
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
— Wendell Phillips
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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
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The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
— Duke of Wellington
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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
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
— Victor Hugo
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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
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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
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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
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The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.
— Rush Limbaugh
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
— George Orwell
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous…
— Camille Paglia
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A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove…
— Wendy Cope
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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who Wrote These Waterloo Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Waterloo Quotes, led by these top contributors: