Betray Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image “The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Betray Blood Conqueror Inactivity Loss Strength
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Strength is not merely proved by how much blood one has spilt, how many foes defeated, or how many battles won. Sometimes, living day-to-day,… — Greg James Copy Share Image
The greater conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. — Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“for in proportion as the enemy despair of conquest, they will be trying the arts of seduction and the force of fear by all… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“What triumph more complete than that of extorting from a conquered foe the admission that he is conquered?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Conquerors fight their own battles. You are more than a conqueror, that's why the battle was fought on your behalf by Christ. However, it… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Ash,” Mab crooned as he drew near. “My poor boy. Rowan told me what happened between the two of you, but I know you… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism. — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
Stop holding onto people that treat you like crap. They might be nice sometimes, but the rest of the time they disrespect you and… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall… — Bible Copy Share Image
One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
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