- Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more: Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace ther’s nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’ed rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot: Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge, Cry”God for Harry! England and Saint George! Cry, “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war.Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peacea as for as day does night; it’s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy: mulled, deaf, sleep, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.If you have writ your annals true, ’tis there, That, like an eagle in a devecote, I Flutter’d your Volcians in Corioli: Alone I didit”.
- Quotes by Siegfried Sassoon
“But death replied: “I choose him.” So he went, And there was silence in the summer night; Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep. Then, far away, the thudding of the guns”. - Quotes by Sallust
“It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one, since its beginning and end are not under the control of the same man. Anyone, even a coward, can commence a war, but it can be brought to an end only with the consent of the victors”. - Quotes by John Ruskin
“You may either win your peace or buy it – win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil”. - Quotes by Polybus
“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible”. - Quotes by Thomas Parnell
“Lovely, lasting peace of mind, Sweet delight of human kind”.
Tags: John Ruskin, Polybus, Sallust, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Parnell, War And Peace, William Shakespeare
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