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Wikiquote:Quotes of the Year

This page listed all "Quotes of the Day" that had been chosen for the current year, updated on a monthly basis; but was abandoned in 2012 during a period of reduced interest in maintaining it.

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January 2012
Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.'' ~ Jacob Bronowski ~
 * 1) Life is a gift horse in my opinion. ~ J. D. Salinger
 * 2) It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ~ Isaac Asimov
 * 3) The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Return of the King
 * 4) When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone, when you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on. Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries  and everybody hurts sometimes.  ~ R.E.M.  ~
 * 5) Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. ~ Umberto Eco
 * 6) Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society, from politics, from history, for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt, which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances. ~ Jacques Ellul
 * 7) Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
 * 8) The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. ~ Gerry Spence
 * 9) It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
 * 10) Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly used to kill men, but here In the sense of a symbol. ~ Robinson Jeffers ~
 * 11) When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ~ Alexander Hamilton
 * 12) To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal. ~ Swami Vivekananda
 * 13) LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth — not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real meaning of the word; truth which is not merely theoretical, not simply a word, but truth that can be realized in practice. The meaning behind these words may be explained as follows: By liberation is meant the liberation which is the aim of all schools, all religions, at all times. This liberation can indeed be very great. All men desire it and strive after it. But it cannot be attained without the first liberation, a lesser liberation. The great liberation is liberation from influences outside us. The lesser liberation is liberation from influences within us. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
 * 14) The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. ~ Albert Schweitzer
 * 15) I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 * 16) One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feelings… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking. ~ Susan Sontag
 * 17) My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed. ~ Zooey Deschanel
 * 18) ''The force that makes the winter grow
 * 1) It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E. Lee
 * 2) All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. ~ Federico Fellini
 * 3) To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are degrading to a rational nature, and utterly unworthy of God, of whom we should form the most exalted ideas. ~ Ethan Allen
 * 4) Near this spot Are deposited the Remains of one Who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery If inscribed over human ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a DOG ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron ~
 * 5) O to be a dragon,  a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! ~ Marianne Moore ~
 * 6) Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. ~ William Congreve
 * 7) You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art. ~ W. Somerset Maugham ~
 * 8) Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war. ~  Douglas MacArthur
 * 9) I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference... We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
 * 10) By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet. ~ Colette
 * 11) Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them. ~ Thomas Paine
 * 12) The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
 * 13) Are the mystics and sages insane? Because they all tell variations on the same story, don't they? The story of awakening one morning and discovering you are one with the All, in a timeless and eternal and infinite fashion. Yes, maybe they are crazy, these divine fools. Maybe they are mumbling idiots in the face of the Abyss. Maybe they need a nice, understanding therapist. Yes, I'm sure that would help. But then, I wonder. Maybe the evolutionary sequence really is from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, each transcending and including, each with a greater depth and greater consciousness and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution, maybe, just maybe, an individual's consciousness does indeed touch infinity — a total embrace of the entire Kosmos — a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own true nature. It's at least plausible. And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages the world over, any crazier than the scientific materialism story, which is that the entire sequence is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: just which of those two stories actually sounds totally insane? ~ Ken Wilber

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Anthony McAuliffe

Anthony McAuliffe (2 July 1898 – 11 August 1975) was the United States Army general who was the acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, famous for his single-word reply of "Nuts!" in response to a German surrender ultimatum.

Quotes

 * "To the German commander.
 *  Nuts!
 * From the American commander."
 * His famous reply to the German demand for surrender of the surrounded US 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge (22 December 1944), as quoted in Bastogne : The Story of the First Eight Days In Which the 101st Airborne Division Was Closed Within the Ring of German Forces (1946) by Colonel S. L. A. Marshal, Ch. 14; delivering the message Colonel Joseph H. Harper was asked "What does that mean? ... Is this affirmative or negative?" and replied "Definitely not affirmative."

 * Allied Troops are counterattacking in force. We continue to hold Bastogne. By holding Bastogne we assure the success of the Allied Armies. We know that our Division Commander, General Taylor, will say: Well Done! We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present and being privileged to take part in this gallant feat of arms are truly making for ourselves a Merry Christmas.
 * US 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge (22 December 1944), as quoted in Gen. McAuliffe’s Christmas message, Battle of the Bulge

Quotes about McAuliffe

 * Colonel Gaston Bell: General McAuliffe refused a German surrender demand. You know what he said?
 * General George S. Patton: What?
 * Colonel Gaston Bell: "Nuts!"
 * Patton: [laughing] Keep them moving, colonel. A man that eloquent has to be saved.
 * Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, in Patton (1970), depicting Patton leading three divisions towards Bastogne.

Asserting that Bastogne was "encircled," the note gave McAuliffe, who was acting commander of the 101st in the absence of Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, two hours to surrender or face "total annihilation." It offered "the privileges of the Geneva Convention" to the would-be POWs. What came next would be one of World War II's seminal moments. As [Vincent] Vicari, McAuliffe's personal aide, recalls it 60 years later, "General Mac read the note and said, 'Aw, nuts.' Then he asked, 'What should I tell them?' " Lt. Col. Harry W. O. Kinnard, the division operations officer, said, "Why not tell them what you just said?" "What did I just say?" "You said, 'Nuts,' " Kinnard replied. McAuliffe scribbled a reply: To the Germans who didn't understand the Yankee colloquialism, Harper explained: "It means the same thing as 'Go to hell.' " While World War II historian Barry Turner says McAuliffe's one-word riposte "lost something in translation," others have speculated that "nuts" might be a sanitized version of what the tough paratroop general actually said. Not so, Vicari says. "General Mac was the only general I ever knew who did not use profane language," he said in a telephone interview. " 'Nuts' was part of his normal vocabulary."
 * On Dec. 22, four German couriers approached American lines under a flag of truce, carrying a message "from the German commander to the American commander."
 * "To the German commander.
 *  Nuts!
 * From the American commander."
 * He handed the message to Lt. Col. Joseph Harper, who had escorted the couriers.
 * Richard Pyle, in "Fateful Call Summoned Allies to Battle of Bulge" in The Los Angeles Times (12 December 2004)

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Joan of Arc

Jehanne Darc also known as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) (c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) was a religious visionary, martyr, saint and heroine of France. Burned at the stake as a heretic after sentencing by a tribunal of pro-English clergy, she was later cleared of the charges during an appellate trial of the Inquisition on 7 July 1456, and canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church on 16 May 1920.

Quotes

 * '''"...you shall never hold the Kingdom of France from God, the King of Heaven, the son of St. Mary; but King Charles, the true heir, will hold it; for God, the King of Heaven wishes it so...."
 * From her ultimatum to the English commanders at Orleans, dictated to a scribe on 22 March 1429; excerpt from the translation in "Joan of Arc: Her Story" (1999) by Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin, p. 34.

 * '''"You ruin the sacraments of the Church, you rend the articles of Faith, you destroy churches... What rage or madness drives you? This Faith, which Almighty God, which the Son, which the Holy Spirit have revealed, established, given sway and glorified a thousandfold through miracles is the faith which you persecute.... if I do not hear that you have corrected yourselves, I may well leave these English and set off against you, so that, by the sword if I cannot otherwise, I may remove your madness and foul superstition... if you choose instead to return to the Catholic faith and to the original source of light, send me your ambassadors and I shall tell them what you must do."
 * From her ultimatum to the Hussites, dictated to a scribe on 23 March 1430; excerpt from the translation in "Joan of Arc: Her Story" (1999) by Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin, p. 259.

 * Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.
 * From the trial transcript, as quoted in World Famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (1881) by Frank Boott Goodrich, p. 126
 * Variant translation: There is a saying among children that sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.

 * About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.
 * From the trial transcript, as quoted in The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994)

 * Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
 * As quoted by Jean Toutmouille during the retrial after her execution (5 March 1449), as quoted in Jeanne d'Arc, maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France (1902) by T. Douglas Murray

 * I do not fear men-at-arms; my way has been made plain before me. If there be men-at-arms my Lord God will make a way for me to go to my Lord Dauphin. For that am I come.
 * Often misquoted as I am not afraid; I was born to do this.
 * As given in The Life of Joan of Arc (1909) by Anatole France, tr. Winifred Stevens, vol. i, p. 97, referencing Trials, vol. i, p. 449.

Trial records (1431)

 * Saint Joan of Arc's Trials edited by T. Douglas Murray (1903) updated into modern English usage by Mathias Gabel and Carlyn Iuzzolino

 * If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
 * First public examination (21 February 1431)

 * It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still; is not this lawful for all prisoners?
 * First public examination (21 February 1431)

 * I was thirteen when I had a Voice from God for my help and guidance. The first time that I heard this Voice, I was very much frightened; it was mid-day, in the summer, in my father's garden. I had not fasted the day before. I heard this Voice to my right, towards the Church; rarely do I hear it without its being accompanied also by a light. This light comes from the same side as the Voice. Generally it is a great light. Since I came into France I have often heard this Voice. … If I were in a wood, I could easily hear the Voice which came to me. It seemed to me to come from lips I should reverence. I believe it was sent me from God. When I heard it for the third time, I recognized that it was the Voice of an Angel. This Voice has always guarded me well, and I have always understood it; it instructed me to be good and to go often to Church; it told me it was necessary for me to come into France. You ask me under what form this Voice appeared to me? You will hear no more of it from me this time. It said to me two or three times a week: 'You must go into France.' My father knew nothing of my going. The Voice said to me: 'Go into France !' I could stay no longer. It said to me: 'Go, raise the siege which is being made before the City of Orleans. Go !' it added, 'to Robert de Baudricourt, Captain of Vaucouleurs: he will furnish you with an escort to accompany you.' And I replied that I was but a poor girl, who knew nothing of riding or fighting. I went to my uncle and said that I wished to stay near him for a time. I remained there eight days. I said to him, 'I must go to Vaucouleurs.' He took me there. When I arrived, I recognized Robert de Baudricourt, although I had never seen him. I knew him, thanks to my Voice, which made me recognize him.
 * Second public examination (22 February 1431)

 * The Voice had promised me that, as soon I came to the King, he would receive me. Those of my party knew well that the Voice had been sent me from God; they have seen and known this Voice, I am sure of it. My King and many others have also heard and seen the Voices which came to me: there were there Charles de Bourbon and two or three others. There is not a day when I do not hear this Voice; and I have much need of it. But never have I asked of it any recompense but the salvation of my soul.
 * Second public examination (22 February 1431)

 * The light comes at the same time as the Voice. … I will not tell you all; I have not leave; my oath does not touch on that. My Voice is good and to be honored. I am not bound to answer you about it. I request that the points on which I do not now answer may be given me in writing. … You shall not know yet. There is a saying among children, that 'Sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.'" [She is asked : Do you know if you are in the grace of God?] If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.
 * Third public examination (24 February 1431); part of this testimony has sometimes been paraphrased: '''If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

 * Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
 * Trial records (15 March 1431)

 * You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wrongly, because you will put yourself in great danger. I warn you, so that if God punishes you for it, I would have done my duty by telling you!
 * Jeanne's warning to Bishop Cauchon (15 March 1431)

Misattributed

 * One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.
 * Quote is often seen as attributed to Joan of Arc. However, the quote is actually a line from a script for the 1946 Broadway play entitled Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson which later become a movie in 1948 entitled Joan of Arc directed by Victor Fleming and starring Ingrid Bergman. The line is spoken by Joan of Arc to Bishop Pierre Cauchon in Act II, Scene III of the play. (Script)

Quotes about Joan of Arc

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 * We declare that you are fallen again into your former errors and under the sentence of excommunication which you originally incurred we decree that you are a relapsed heretic; and by this sentence which we deliver in writing and pronounce from this tribunal, we denounce you as a rotten member, which, so that you shall not infect the other members of Christ, must be cast out of the unity of the Church, cut off from her body, and given over to the secular power: we cast you off, separate and abandon you, praying this same secular power on this side of death and the mutilation of your limbs, to moderate its judgment towards you, and if true signs of repentance appear in you to permit the sacrament of penance to be administered to you.
 * A portion of the final sentence pronounced on Joan after her trial, as quoted in The Trial of Jeanne D’arc (1931), by Pierre Champion, as translated by Coley Taylor and Ruth H. Kerr

 * God forgive us: we have burned a saint.
 * An anonymous English soldier after the execution, as quoted in Fools, Martyrs, Traitors : The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World (1997) by Lacey Baldwin Smith, p. 11

 * Joan of Arc, dreaming under her trees, heard the messages of the saints. The voices told her what to do: "Deliver Orléans and consecrate the Dauphin at Rheims." This idea would probably never have occurred to the wisest of the politicians living in her day, or if it had, they would have rejected it as impossible. This was the mission of Joan of Arc and she fulfilled it. It was the salvation of France. By common consent, in no country and in no time has there been a purer heroine or a more wonderful story.
 * Jacques Bainville, History of France (1926), p. 88

 * From the most matter-of-fact point of view, that of politics, what is most astonishing about this Maid of Orléans is her comprehension of the situation, her good sense, and the correctness of her judgment. She understood that the fate of France was one with that of her kings and that it was necessary to revive the royal power.
 * Jacques Bainville, History of France (1926), p. 89

 * Not infrequently even the soldiers and politicians who were fondest of Joan did not wish to listen to her. Nearly always she was right, her presentiments were verified, and she gave forth such a spirit of quiet certainty that people did without effort what she told them.
 * Jacques Bainville, History of France (1926), p. 89

 * [O]ne of the great ideas of her whom Villon calls "the good lass of Lorraine" had been the reconciliation of the French people. Thanks to the national movement which her intervention set on foot, the widespread horror at her martyrdom brought her wish to fulfillment. The domination of England was more and more detested.
 * Jacques Bainville, History of France (1926), p. 90

 * If I were Joan of Arc I would become governor of Puerto Rico and make my island a state — and then become president of the United States of Banana — and head south to conquer all of Latin America and the Caribbean — and swoop back north to take over Canada. I could do all that — if only I could decide between three options: Wishy, Wishy-Washy, and Washy.
 * Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana (2011)

 * Joanni, Joanni wears a golden cross And she looks so beautiful in her armour Joanni, Joanni blows a kiss to God And she never wears a ring on her finger...
 * Kate Bush, in "Joanni" on Aerial (2005)

 * The tide turned and the war began to go against the English. This was due in great part to the influence of a young French peasant girl, Joan of Arc. Inspired by the belief that she had been given a mission by God to deliver France from its invaders and to place the Dauphin on the throne of his fathers, she appeared before him, secured his reluctant consent to allow her to lead some troops, inspired them with her own enthusiasm and confidence, and won a great success by driving away the English who were besieging Orleans. The Dauphin himself was then stirred to greater activity and under the persuasion of the Maid of Orleans, as she came to be called, made his way to Rheims, the ancient coronation city of the French kings, and was there crowned king of France. Joan now felt that she had fulfilled her mission and asked to be allowed to return to her home, but the Dauphin insisted that she should remain with the army. Some time after this she was captured by the English. After a trial which was planned to end in but one way she was burned as a witch in the market place of Rouen. Even one of the persecutors of the innocent French patriot girl wavered and turned away, crying, "God have mercy upon us, we have burned a saint." The movement of success which Joan had begun continued, and although the French frequently wasted their opportunities, yet on the whole the reconquest of their native land went steadily on. The English were driven out of one province after another; their expeditions from England were more poorly equipped and more unsuccessful. Finally the long war came to a close in 1453 by the defeat of an English army near Bordeaux, and the loss of all their territory in France except Calais.
 * Edward Potts Cheyney, in A Short History of England (1904), p. 269

 * Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.
 * Sir Winston Churchill, in The Birth of Britain

 * Yes, it’s true. It’s true that Joan of Arc was my dream as a little girl. I discovered her toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don’t remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet ... what happens when we’re children is engraved forever in our lives.
 * Indira Gandhi. quoted in     Oriana Fallaci. (2011). Interview with Indira Gandhi, in : Interviews with history and conversations with power. New York: Rizzoli.

 * Who in the moment of victory remains inaccessible to vanity and hate, who in the midst of popular enthusiasm lives in humility and prayer, who in the universal crush of ambition covets neither profit nor honours.
 * Jean Gerson, scholar, educator, reformer and poet, and Chancellor of the University of Paris. Gerson was also one of the first individuals to publicly defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural volition as authentic. This statement he made is inscribed in the Cole Gallery in Ruffner Hall at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Joan of Arc is the patron saint of Longwood University and featured in two prominent statues on campus.

 * Joan of Arc was perhaps the most wonderful person who ever lived in the world. The story of her life is so strange that we could scarcely believe it to be true, if all that happened to her had not been told by people in a court of law, and written down by her deadly enemies, while she was still alive.
 * Andrew Lang, in The Story of Joan of Arc (1906), Ch. 1 : The Childhood of Joan of Arc

 * They burned her cruelly to death in the marketplace of Rouen, with eight hundred soldiers round the stake, lest any should attempt to save her. They had put a false accusation on a paper cap, and set it on her head : it was written that she was "Heretic, Relapsed, Apostate, Idolatress." This was her reward for the bravest and best life that was ever lived.
 * Andrew Lang, in The Story of Joan of Arc (1906), Ch. 18 : The End of the Maid

 * And now I know how Joan of Arc felt Now I know how Joan of Arc felt As the flames rose to her And her  started to melt
 * Variation in : "And her IPod started to melt."
 * Johnny Marr and Morrissey, ,  (1986)

 * Official orators have agreed amongst themselves to leave out one essential point: that to undertake the liberation of the fatherland, Joan had to go directly to the Dauphin Charles, acknowledge the right of his royal blood, and have him crowned and acclaimed on the cathedral square of Reims.
 * Charles Maurras, Action Française (12 May 1929), quoted in Robert Gildea, The Past in French History (1994; 1996), p. 162

 * The courage of Joan of Arc was made the subject of a popular lecture not long ago by one of our intelligent citizens.
 * Lucretia Mott, "Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" (1854)

 * I have always responded to challenges, followed apocalyptical personalities, apostles, Rasputins, Joan of Arcs who hear voices that come from Heaven, illuminated guides of humanity, holders of truth, priests.
 * Elena Poniatowska "A Question Mark Engraved on my Eyelids" in The Writer on Her Work (1992), translated from Spanish by Cynthia Steele

 * Jehanne... If you come from God, I do not fear you … if you come from the Devil, I fear you even less.
 * Constable de Richemont, who went on to serve at her side in the Battle of Patay.

 * I saw myself in front of an angry mob, facing a firing squad, weeping incomprehensible sorrows and forgiving them! — Like Joan of Arc!
 * Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell

 * If Joan had been malicious, selfish, cowardly, or stupid, she would have been one of the most odious persons known to history instead of one of the most attractive.
 * George Bernard Shaw, in his prologue to Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923) - Full text online

 * Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
 * George Bernard Shaw, of Joan's martyrdom, in Saint Joan : A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue (1923)

 * She is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.
 * Mark Twain

 * Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
 * Mark Twain, in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte(1896), p. 7; a novel presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of memoirs by Louis de Conte

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Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is a historical tragedy by William Shakespeare, originally printed in the First Folio of 1623. Most scholars believe it was written in 1606–07.

Act I

 * Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure.
 * Philo, scene i

 * There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
 * Antony, scene i

 * In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
 * Soothsayer, scene ii

 * He was dispos'd to mirth; but on the sudden A Roman thought hath struck him.
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * This grief is crowned with consolation.
 *  Enobarbus, scene ii

 * Eternity was in our lips and eyes.
 * Cleopatra, scene iii

 * From Alexandria
 * This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
 * The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like
 * Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy
 * More womanly than he.

 * Octavius Caesar, scene iv

 * Antony, leave thy lascivious wassails.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene iv

 * Give me to drink mandragora.
 * Cleopatra, scene v

 * Where’s my serpent of old Nile? For so he calls me.
 * Cleopatra, speaking of Antony, scene v

 * I was A morsel for a monarch.
 * Cleopatra, scene v

 * My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then!
 * Cleopatra, scene v

Act II

 * Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
 * Pompey, scene i

 * Small to greater matters must give way.
 * Lepidus, scene ii

 * If I knew What hoop should hold us staunch, from edge to edge O' the world I would pursue it.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene ii

 * The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description.
 * Enobarbus, scene ii

 * Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women cloy The appetites they feed; but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies: for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
 * Enobarbus, scene ii

 * I have not kept my square; but that to come Shall all be done by the rule.
 * Antony, scene iii

 * If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds; thy lustre thickens When he shines by.
 * Soothsayer, scene iii

 * ’T was merry when You wager’d on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.
 * Charmian, scene v

 * Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
 * Singer, scene vii

 * It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain, And it grows fouler.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene vii

Act III

 * Who does i’ the wars more than his captain can, Becomes his captain’s captain; and ambition, The soldier’s virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him.
 * Ventidius, scene i

 * I have eyes upon him, And his affairs come to me on the wind.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene vi

 * You are abused Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods, To do you justice, make them ministers Of us and those that love you.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene vi

 * Celerity is never more admir'd than by the negligent.
 * Cleopatra, scene vii

 * Observe how Antony becomes his flaw
 * Octavius Caesar, scene xii

 * To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head, And he will fill thy wishes to the brim With principalities.
 * Antony, scene xiii

 * Tell him, he wears the rose Of youth upon him.
 * Antony, scene xiii

 * Men’s judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.
 * Enobarbus, scene xiii

 * Mine honesty and I begin to square.
 * Enorbarbus, scene xiii

 * Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!' Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am Antony yet.
 * Antony, scene xiii

 * You were half blasted ere I knew you
 * Antony, scene xiii

 * You have been a boggler ever.
 * Antony, scene xiii

 * Get thee back to Caesar, Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say He makes me angry with him; for he seems Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry.
 * Antony, scene xiii

 * Alack, our terrene moon Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone The fall of Antony!
 * Antony, scene xiii

 * Now I'll set my teeth, And send to darkness all that stop me.
 * Antony,, scene xiii

 * It is my birth-day: I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.
 * Cleopatra, scene xiii

 * I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.
 * Antony, scene xiii

Act IV

 * He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat, Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know I have many other ways to die; meantime Laugh at his challenge.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene i

 * To business that we love we rise betime, And go to ’t with delight.
 * Antony, scene iv

 * This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.
 * Antony, scene iv

 * The time of universal peace is near.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene vi

 * The shirt of Nessus is upon me.
 * Antony, scene xii

 * O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me.
 * Enobarbus,, scene ix

 * Let the world rank me in register A master-leaver and a fugitive: O Antony! O Antony!
 * Enobarbus, scene ix

 * Charmain: Be comforted, dear madam. Cleopatra: No, I will not. All strange and terrible events are welcome, But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow, Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great.
 * Scene xiii

 * Antony: Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon ’t, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs? They are black vesper's pageants. Enorbarbus: Ay, my lord. Antony: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
 * Scene xiv

 * The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!
 * Antony, scene xiv

 * Since Cleopatra died, I have liv’d in such dishonour, that the gods Detest my baseness.
 * Antony, scene xiv

 * I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here impórtune death a while, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.
 * Antony, scene xv

 * O, wither’d is the garland of the war! The soldier’s pole is fall'n; young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
 * Cleopatra,

 * Good sirs, take heart: — We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us. Come, away: This case of that huge spirit now is cold. — Ah, women, women! — come; we have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end.
 * Cleopatra, scene xv

Act V

 * The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack
 * Octavius Caesar, scene i

 * The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A moiety of the world.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene i

 * Let me lament, With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts, That thou, my brother, my competitor In top of all design, my mate in empire, Friend and companion in the front of war, The arm of mine own body, and the heart Where mine his thoughts did kindle,—that our stars, Unreconciliable, should divide Our equalness to this.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene i

 * For his bounty, There was no winter in ’t; an autumn ’t was, That grew the more by reaping.
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * If there be, or ever were, one such, It’s past the size of dreaming.
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view; in their thick breath, Rank with gross diet, shall we be enclouded, And forc'd to drink their vapour.
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * Shall they hoist me up And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies Blow me into abhorring!
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * His delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they lived in.
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark.
 * Iras, scene ii

 * I wish you joy o' the worm.
 * Clown, scene ii

 * I have Immortal longings in me.
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * Come, thou mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar Ass Unpolicied!
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.''
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?
 * Cleopatra, scene ii

 * She looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene ii

 * She shall be buried by her Antony: No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous.
 * Octavius Caesar, scene ii

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