Great saying by great authors Quote by William Butler Yeats Download Open image “That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost,” — William Butler Yeats ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great saying by great authors War
“Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result. — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
“In this the seat our Conqueror has given? And this the climate we must change for heaven? These Regions and this realm my wars… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound — James Kirkup Copy Share Image
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Here the crow starves, here the patient stag Breeds for the rifle. — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere. — John Luckey McCreery Copy Share Image
It was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glitt'ring on theground, And evening stars were twinkling bright; — William Barnes Copy Share Image
