Jingo Quotes

#1. We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.

G W Hunt

#2. Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

George Orwell

#3. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly.

George Orwell

#4. [Henry James] privately characterized Roosevelt as "a dangerous and ominous jingo," and "the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise.

Edmund Morris

#5. Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

Gore Vidal

#6. Meditate, he'd said. Jingo Jingo was such a joker.

Devon Monk

#7. Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it".

Cliff Sloan

#8. I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

Erin McCarthy

#9. The biggest weakness of the green-consumer movement, always, is that we tend to pick the easy-to-do things because that's where we can most readily engage people. It doesn't cost them very much to switch products or whatever it happens to be.

John Elkington

#10. Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

Terry Pratchett

#11. I and my silences keep talking to each other.

Avijeet Das

#12. I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#13. And I can't believe you didn't tell me you were all goo-goo eyed over my dad. Oh, and that you failed to mention you were sleeping with him

Kade Boehme

#14. Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

Kingsley Amis

#15. I like how I write better than how I speak.

Henry Rollins

#16. New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.

Alphonsus Liguori