Quotes About Byng

#1. My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

Rudolph A. Marcus

#2. In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

Voltaire

#3. The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

John Byng

#4. By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

John Byng

#5. Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.

John Byng

#6. Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though.

Michael Monroe

#7. There's no time like the present,
No present like time.
And life can be over in the space of a rhyme.
There's no gift like friendship
And no love like mine.
Give me your love to treasure through time.

Georgia Byng

#8. I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.

Graham Moore

#9. Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky ...

Georgia Byng

#10. Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

Brian Tracy

#11. The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.

John Byng

#12. We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful island and the church where we were married every year for the rest of our lives.

Giuliana Rancic

#13. It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.

Richard DeVos

#14. The question of what happens after life is question that unifies human beings.

Georgia Byng

#15. The beginning of Eternity,
The end of time and space,
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place. What am I?

Georgia Byng

#16. I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.

John Byng

#17. I revel in flowers without let,
An atom at random in space;
My soul dwells in regions ethereal,
And the world is my dreaming-place.

L. Cranmer-Byng