Duke of Wellington Quotes

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

Duke of Wellington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852

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HopeDayEnemySaidNamesLord

I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.

Jennifer Johnston

MotherDaughterGreatMeGrandfather

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

John Lasseter

BusinessBestQualitySimplePlan

Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.

Steve Erickson

BeachMeThoughtSomeoneCastleMay

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

TruthLieInsideFiction

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

Sirio Maccioni

GoodFoodSimpleSaltComplicated

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

Mike Birbiglia

FunnyYourselfThinkYouPlayYour

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

Mo Udall

WinterRichIceYouUnderstandPoor

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

LearningFutureMistakesForwardUs

When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.

Jourdan Dunn

EducationBusinessBackGoGoing

I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.

Cilla Black

GodParentsMeNightYearSay

The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.

Alicia Garza

ExperienceRacismPeopleBetterYou

When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man's fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

ManCountryFameNothingMoreBeen

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