15 George William Curtis Quotes

George William Curtis quotes

1. I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: 'Dreamer, dream no more!'

2. While we read history we make history.

3. Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

1. Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

2. Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

3. Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.

4. The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

5. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

6. True invective requires great imagination.

7. A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

8. A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

9. In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

10. The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

11. Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

12. Good taste consists first upon fitness.