Top 41 His Excellency Quotes
#1. One of the French officers was horrified that at a dinner in Washington's tent, His Excellency served the meal not in a succession of courses like in civilization. Apparently Washington "gave, on the same plate, meat, vegetables, and salad." On the same plate? Were these Americans people or animals?
Sarah Vowell
#2. His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
Idi Amin
#3. I am a worm in comparison with His Excellency. I am a worm.' 'Yes, that's just it, you are a worm indeed.
Julian Barnes
#4. His Excellency today appealed to the Officers of this Army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause.
-General Orders of George Washington, Valley Forge
Laurie Halse Anderson
#5. I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat
#6. God is solitary in His excellency. "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" (Exo 15:11).
Arthur W. Pink
#7. I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.
Francisco Goya
#8. Let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
Hermann Hesse
#9. If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.
Javier Cercas
#10. He only is independently, infinitely, immutably holy. In Scripture He is frequently styled "The Holy One": He is so because the sum of all moral excellency is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. "God
Arthur W. Pink
#11. If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
John Piper
#12. The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
#14. The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#15. A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot.
Robert Greene
#16. The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by
the object of its love: he who loveth mean and sordid things
doth thereby become base and vile; but a noble
and well placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit
into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.
Henry Scougal
#17. Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.
John Newton
#18. I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us ... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
Thomas Jefferson
#19. His Infernal Excellency," he declared, "the ambassador of Hell.
China Mieville
#20. We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
John Selden
#21. NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. Your call has a
time frame,a price to pay,urgency of attention.
Your call has a purpose, a pursuit, vision, commission,
honors and even excellency. So what are u called to
Ikechukwu Joseph
#23. You mustn't think to embarrass them with your witnessing, Your Excellency; they won't be embarrassed.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#24. Don't settle for less than God's best for you".
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#25. Your excellency, if you persist in this attitude a complaint will go to your Lord Vetinari!"
"He does so look forward to them.
Terry Pratchett
#26. If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.
Jonathan Edwards
#27. That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
Mary Astell
#28. I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.
Alberto Fujimori
#29. It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
William Shakespeare
#30. THE Superintendent said to me: "I only keep you out of regard for your worthy father; but for that you would have been sent flying long ago." I replied to him: "You flatter me too much, your Excellency, in assuming that I am capable of flying.
Anton Chekhov
#31. A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding
#32. He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.
William Law
#33. I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.
Henry A. Kissinger
#34. Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#35. Let's try Your Excellency." Layla
J.R. Ward
#36. There is no excellency without difficulty.
Ovid
#37. The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment.
Richard Sibbes
#38. There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
Philip Sidney
#39. Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
Pierre Laplace
#40. My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#41. Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.
Joel Beeke
