Quotes About Trafalgar

#1. Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

Johan Huizinga

#2. Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

Eiichiro Oda

#3. Feel for others - in your pocket

Charles Spurgeon

#4. Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and even when most obscured by that London smoke, token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for where there is smoke, must be fire.

Herman Melville

#5. And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

Henry Kirke White

#6. I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard

#7. Come back you silly woman I need your credit cards.

Meredith Brosnan

#8. 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

#9. The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.

Adam Nicolson

#10. To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation.

Rona Jaffe

#11. Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Lawrence Durrell

#12. When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

Sam Shepard

#13. Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

Wilhelm II

#15. By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness

Tara Brach

#16. I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.

Duff McKagan

#17. Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.

Patrick O'Brian

#18. Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Will Self

#19. Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.
(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)

Waterstones

#20. I love whom I love.

Peter S. Beagle

#21. The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

Alice Eve

#22. Sex spelled backwards is excess and that's how it should always be.

Chloe Thurlow

#23. Anything from Kipling

Rudyard Kipling