Great man Quote by Margot Asquith Download Open image “If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.” — Margot Asquith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great man Great men Ifs Men Posters
Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
“The historical figures who earned the honorific “So-and-So the Great” were not great artists, scholars, doctors, or inventors, people who enhanced human happiness or… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom… — W.E.B. DuBois Copy Share Image
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I always thought Stuart deserved a little bit of fame. He was a gifted artist and a very wonderful person. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It was a “severe” disappointment to Henry Wilson who laid it all at the door of Kitchener and the Cabinet for having sent only four divisions instead of six. Had all six been present, he said with that marvelous incapacity to admit error that was to make him ultimately a Field Marshal, “this retreat would have been an advance and… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“We desire no conquest, no dominion, we seek no indemnities, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.” — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“The home the military top brass had created for themselves was "picturesque, romantic and unreal", he wrote. "It was as though men were playing… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“The French suffered 531,000 casualties (dead, wounded and captured) in those three months, roughly as many as in the eight months of Verdun in 1916. The British (including Empire troops) had 411,000 casualties - almost exactly the same as in the four-and-a-half months of the Somme. The Americans suffered 127,000 casualties, more than double the total number of American casualties… — Margot Asquith Copy Share
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it operates in some particular manufactures. It is commonly supposed to be carried furthest in some very trifling ones; not perhaps that it really is carried further in them than in others of more importance: but in… — Adam Smith Copy Share
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what… — Martin Buber Copy Share
A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well.… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share
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