Waterloo Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

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
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
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
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
I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didnâ€™t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London. — Amelia Warner
Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history… — Patrick O'Brian
If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W.… — David Hare
The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog… — John Updike

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