Top 100 Quotes About Horatio
#1. Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
William Shakespeare
#3. O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story ...
O, I die, Horatio;
William Shakespeare
#5. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.
Karen Abbott
#6. Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America - which means that at some level you've made peace with its rather ugly past.
Vijay Iyer
#7. Chicks, man, am I right? They crazy," you say.
"Yes, what IS the deal with over half the human population of the planet? They're definitely all 100% insane," Horatio replies sarcastically.
Ryan North
#9. Horatio leaned toward her, "What is the secret of joy?"
Mousey thought for a moment. "Doing what you like best."
Of course. How simple. And how true.
Jean Ferris
#10. I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
Karen Abbott
#11. Don't you ever do that to me."
"You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.
Elizabeth Wein
#12. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.
Waverley Root
#13. One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
Jimmy Carter
#14. I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
Hunter S. Thompson
#15. Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
Barry Unsworth
#16. James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.
Jon Landau
#17. The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.
or Samuel Goldwyn
but not the hidden costs behind those achievements. Carl Rollyson compassionately captures the man behind the movie star.
Marion Meade
#18. One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.
Rob Huebel
#19. Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay
#20. For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!
Norman Lock
#21. I don't think Blanca was worth it, Horatio told him. She wasn't even that good.
Richelle Mead
#22. I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
Andy Cohen
#23. BEL-IMPERIA: Oh let me go; for in my troubled eyes
Now may'st thou read that life in passion dies.
HORATIO: Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee;
So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered me.
Thomas Kyd
#24. Horatio Lyle hit the floor, the floor hit him, and the floor came out the winner. It was in times like these, he told himself, when Newton's Second Law really made its point.
Catherine Webb
#25. That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
Thomas Jefferson
#26. In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
Horatio Greenough
#27. I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes ... I really do not see the signal!
Horatio Nelson
#28. The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Horatio Alger
#29. The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.
Horatio Nelson
#30. What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson
#32. My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson
#33. Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
Horatio Nelson
#34. 'Naked Gun 33 1/3' I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.
Horatio Sanz
#35. No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
Horatio Alger
#36. Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
Horatio Nelson
#37. Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson
#38. Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson
#40. Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
Horatio Nelson
#41. I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.
Horatio Nelson
#42. I cannot walk past Peanut Butter M&Ms and Oreos.
Horatio Sanz
#43. If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson
#44. They were setting off on an adventure, and Hornblower was only too conscious that it was his own fault.
C.S. Forester
#45. Whatever my lot Thou has taught me to say
It is well it is well with my soul.
Horatio G. Spafford
#46. Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
Horatio Nelson
#47. It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.
Horatio Nelson
#48. Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson
#49. Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.
Horatio Nelson
#50. Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson
#51. I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.
Horatio Sanz
#52. It was not a conspiratorial wink, nor did Hornblower attempt the hopeless task of trying to pretend he stuffed hot greasy sausages into his pockets every day of his life; the wink simply dared the old gentleman to comment on or even think of the remarkable act.
C.S. Forester
#53. Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight
Horatio Nelson
#54. I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
Horatio Nelson
#55. In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Horatio Nelson
#56. If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
Horatio Nelson
#57. Kiss me, Hardy!' Weren't those Nelson's last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don't cry. We're still alive and we make a sensational team.
Elizabeth Wein
#58. My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson
#59. The ideal day never comes.
Today is ideal for him who makes it so.
Horatio Dresser
#61. I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
Horatio Nelson
#62. I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
#63. What I've learned from sketch is you can get it as perfect as you want, and it's never going to be perfect.
Horatio Sanz
#64. I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow
Horatio Nelson Jackson
#65. The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Horatio Alger
#66. When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.
Horatio Nelson
#67. Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.
Horatio Nelson
#68. In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
Horatio Nelson
#71. To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.
Horatio Nelson
#73. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.
Horatio Dresser
#74. I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom.
Horatio Sanz
#75. There are many boys, and men too, who, like Micky Maguire, have never had a fair chance in life. Let us remember that, when we judge them, and not be too hasty to condemn.
Horatio Alger Jr.
#76. What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future - a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within.
Horatio Dresser
#78. Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
Horatio Nelson
#79. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio Bottomley
#80. As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.
Horatio Bottomley
#82. It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
Horatio Nelson
#83. No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson
#85. You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
Horatio Nelson
#86. I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the
Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.
Horatio Nelson
#87. My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.
Horatio Nelson
#88. Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger
#89. First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Horatio Nelson
#91. Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
Horatio Nelson
#92. If I were a dad, I'd have my kids watch 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners.'
Horatio Sanz
#94. Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.
C.S. Forester
#96. The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
Horatio Nelson
#99. The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
Horatio Nelson
#100. Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson
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