Top 100 The Conqueror Quotes
#1. The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us ...
Miriam Makeba
#2. Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror's will
Belcampo
#3. After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
[Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
Juvenal
#5. Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.
Francis Quarles
#7. Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#8. Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
Corrie Ten Boom
#9. Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband
Jules Michelet
#10. Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold
#11. Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Gainst him, a mighty warrior too. Strong, as a soldier born and bred, - Great, as a king whom regions dread. See! what a host the conqueror leads, With elephants, and cars, and steeds. O'er countless bands his pennons fly; So is he mightier far than I.
Valmiki
#13. Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from "The Conqueror")
Richard Matheson
#15. Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
Steven Pinker
#16. His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.
Emmuska Orczy
#17. Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march? It
Elizabeth Gaskell
#18. Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life ... but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.
Roald Dahl
#19. She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.
George R R Martin
#20. Through cruelty force confesses its powerlessness to achieve omnipotence . . . We see weakness dawning at the very height of force. Unable to admit that total destruction is impossible, the conqueror can only reply to the mute defiance of his defenseless adversary with an ever-growing violence.
Rachel Bespaloff
#21. I am blood of the dragon, she told herself. I am Daenerys Stormborn, Princess of Dragonstone, of the blood and seed of Aegon the Conqueror.
George R R Martin
#22. To understand the truth of history, you must lend one ear to the conqueror, yet two to the vanquished.
Kyle West
#23. Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.
Francis Quarles
#24. War ... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
Ludwig Von Mises
#25. Alexander was laid in state in the city he had founded. A previous imperial visit had not been a complete success; Augustus, passing his hands over the inspirational features of the conqueror's corpse, broke off his nose. Whether it was repaired or the emperor removed it as a relic is unrecorded.
Elizabeth Speller
#26. The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#27. In Congo, a slashed jungle quickly becomes a field of flowers, and scars become the ornaments of a particular face. Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you like, it doesn't matter. Africa swallowed the conqueror's music and sang a new song of her own.
Barbara Kingsolver
#28. The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells
#29. William the Conqueror's campaigns against the rebels have usually been dealt with very briefly and resistance has been summarily dismissed as ineffective, largely because in the end, that resistance was overcome in a singularly brutal manner. Even
Peter Rex
#30. Mitochondrial genes act like a female surname, which enables us to trace our ancestry down the female line in the way some families try to trace their descent down the male line from William the Conqueror, or Noah, or Mohammed.
Nick Lane
#31. A king should never sit easy, Aegon the Conqueror had said, when he commanded his armorers to forge a great seat from the swords laid down by his enemies.
George R R Martin
#32. She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.
Joanna Russ
#33. It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.
David Attenborough
#35. A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.
Paulo Coelho
#36. At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#37. I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror.
Samar Sudha
#38. William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.
Salman Rushdie
#39. We look at each other--predator and prey, the conqueror and the conquered--and in that moment, I feel an odd sort of connection to him. Like a part of myself is forever altered by what's happening between us.
Anna Zaires
#40. My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.
Celia Imrie
#41. Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.
Jim Fergus
#42. The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
Konrad Adenauer
#43. To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
John Milton
#44. In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.
William Ralph Inge
#45. Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics - in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs.
Adam Hochschild
#46. When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
James Buchan
#47. Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
Edgar Allan Poe
#48. Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.
George R R Martin
#49. Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
Moliere
#50. Who shall contend with time,
unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
Henry Kirke White
#51. Being dead will be no different from being unborn
I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.
Richard Dawkins
#52. In the eleventh century obese English king William the Conqueror took to bed and consumed nothing but alcohol to shed pounds, a practice many of his countrymen seem to continue to this day.
David Sax
#53. a tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide to hold elections, he would magic the masses into electing him, because he would honestly believe that he was best qualified to rule wisely. Having
Ilona Andrews
#54. So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, you get on your knees.
James Schannep
#55. God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!
Pedro Okoro
#56. But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father.
Gore Vidal
#57. The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
John Milton
#58. Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of it actually portrays or implies enslaved women and master.
Gloria Steinem
#59. The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares
Agona Apell
#60. Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#61. How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!
William Shakespeare
#62. A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
#63. When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.
C. JoyBell C.
#64. In that moment, Xcor thought of each of his fighters. Zypher, the sexual conqueror. Balthazar, the thief. Syphon, the assassin. And the other one who had no name, and too many sins to count. So he was referred to as Syn.
J.R. Ward
#65. I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.
George S. Patton
#66. I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay in the same room. So, in order for you to be more than a conqueror, you're going to have to defeat fear with faith.
Derek Luke
#67. His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.
Idi Amin
#68. But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds ... I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.
Richelle Mead
#69. So gloriously confident, so new to life you could conquer the world.
Margaret Way
#70. If a person seeks after the knowledge of God, he will certainly be a conqueror.
Sunday Adelaja
#71. A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.
Laozi
#72. Christ is in me ... Christ is my life, this is why i live the higher life ... and the reason why i am more than a conqueror!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#73. Raoul felt suddenly impatient. 'Heart of a man, if the Lady Elfrida will trust herself to me I will have her in spite of every customary usage!'
'There spoke the Norman,' Edgar said softly. 'Marauding, grasping, marking his prey!
Georgette Heyer
#74. It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1
Yuval Noah Harari
#75. The truth is we have nothing to fear and nothing to overcome because He is all in all and we are more than conquerors through Him.
Oswald Chambers
#76. A conqueror, I say, can change the course of everything, and muffled tyranny is the first thing which is liable to violence.
Montesquieu
#77. One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.
Daniel Webster
#78. First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.
John Calvin
#79. The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
Plautus
#80. A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.
Emma Goldman
#81. Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.
George R R Martin
#82. Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
William Ellery Channing
#83. Always
in the middle
of our bloodiest battles
you lay down your arms
like flowering mines
to conqueror me home,
-Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
#84. The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture
Camille Paglia
#85. People live in fear of bad being out to get them, when in reality, the bad side is there only to be in polar opposite proportion to the positive that you are destined to thrive in. Conquer the negative, and thrive in the positive.
C. JoyBell C.
#86. The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood ...
Edward Gibbon
#87. Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#88. The idea of marrying Lukan made her skin crawl. He was a Chenayan. She, a Norin. He was her conqueror. She, his conquered. He had been born and raised to lord over her. She had been born and raised to hate him. They might as well have been different species.
Gwynn White
#89. Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest's first conqueror, once said that the mountains gave him strength. I'd never really understood this until now. But it was intoxicating.
Something deep inside me knew that I could do this.
Bear Grylls
#90. Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.
Neal A. Maxwell
#91. That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
#92. These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.
Francine Rivers
#95. The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.
Laozi
#96. In this the seat our Conqueror has given?
And this the climate we must change for heaven?
These Regions and this realm my wars have got
The mournful Empire is the loser's lot.
John Dryden
#98. Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
William Rowan Hamilton
#99. Love is the great conqueror of lust.
C.S. Lewis
#100. For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.
Jan Hus
