William Conqueror Quotes

#1. When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on.

Steve Buscemi

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. When you let go of fear and the need to control, you'll experience how mysterious, sacred, and interesting Life can be.

Melody Beattie

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare

#9. William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.

Salman Rushdie

#10. Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

William Rowan Hamilton

#11. 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

#12. I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

William Benton Clulow

#13. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate
pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or
a single death. Please go vegan.

Gary L. Francione

#19. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

William Shakespeare

#20. 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

#21. There are only two reasons why you should ever be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights and particularly the right to worship God as we see fit. Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple.

Smedley D. Butler

#22. You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

Toni Morrison

#23. 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

#24. I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?

Jasmina Tesanovic

#25. The Force, the Force, the Force! Everything the Force.

Chuck Wendig

#26. 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

#27. I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

Tommy Shaw

#28. How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in my life and cast off His law, it is an absolute declaration of the fact that within my heart I have abandoned worship at the Cross.

Alan Redpath

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I'm going to claim her by the end of the night." He flashed his fangs. "I'll take her home, mount her, fuck her until she screams my name and keep doing it until she swells with what's mine."
-Brawn

Laurann Dohner

#32. Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

William Ellery Channing

#33. I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.

Frank Black

#34. That's the whole point of ... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Andrew Thomas