Top 14 Oliver Hazard Perry Quotes
#1. We have met the enemy and have asked them over later for drinks and dancing.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#2. A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.
Joe Elliott
#4. A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better
especially richer or more fashionable
than he is.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#6. Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#7. But if the things I believe are right and true, then what fear have I of challenge, for will those things I learn not simply prove what is? And if the things I believe are not right and true, would it not be better for me to know that and face it like a man?
Jo Graham
#8. Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
Evangeline Lilly
#9. I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.
Jim Thompson
#10. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
#11. The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.
Oliver Hazard Perry
#12. You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.
Melissa De La Cruz
#13. Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.
Oliver Hazard Perry
