Top 39 Wellesley Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Wellesley

#1. Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

Hillary Clinton

#2. Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. The senior thesis of Hillary D. Rodham, Wellesley College class of 1969, has been speculated about, spun, analyzed, debated, criticized and defended. But rarely has it been read, because for the eight years of Bill Clinton's presidency it was locked away.

Bill Dedman

#4. Wellesley's president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule with a specific application: The senior thesis of every Wellesley alumna is available in the college archives for anyone to read - except for those written by either a 'president or first lady of the United States.'

Bill Dedman

#5. Hillary Clinton lived at Wellesley and Yale. Her circle of friends was that Ivy League bunch, and they were all being trained for lives in government. They were all being trained for lives of government: CIA, State Department.

Rush Limbaugh

#6. After the Battle of Waterloo, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington - who managed to defeat Napoleon by the skin of his teeth - surveyed the blood-soaked cornfields of Belgium and wrote in a letter, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

Chris Pourteau

#7. And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What happens in your house is more important than what happens in the White House."

George H. W. Bush

#8. Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

Elisabeth Shue

#9. The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!"

Rush Limbaugh

#10. I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Madeleine Albright

#11. I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?

Alyson Richman

#12. [Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Nora Ephron

#13. I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.

Paul Engle

#14. By 1996 Nora Ephron was telling a graduating class at Wellesley, Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back. ... Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you.

Rebecca Traister

#15. I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly.

Bernard Cornwell

#17. I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#18. We are striving to change things, lass. But changes don't occur overnight." - Mr. Wellesley

Aya Ling

#19. Too late to point out that he would be better off with someone smart and sweet and - okay - awkward than with Chelsea. Someone who could make him laugh. Someone like, oh, I dunno, me!

Marni Bates

#20. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.

David McCullough Jr.

#21. I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

Arthur Wellesley

#22. Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

Arthur Wellesley

#23. Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

Arthur Wellesley

#24. The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Arthur Wellesley

#25. Napoleon built his campaigns of iron and when one piece broke the whole structure collapsed. I made my campaigns using rope, and if a piece broke I tied a knot

Arthur Wellesley

#26. Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty - stupid me for going along with it.

Marni Bates

#27. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Arthur Wellesley

#28. The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

Arthur Wellesley

#29. It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Arthur Wellesley

#30. The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Arthur Wellesley

#31. I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Arthur Wellesley