“If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.”
IX. 413 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“I was Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.”
As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius (Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 4), and quoted in Cosmic Optimism: A Study of the Interpretation of Evolution (1949) by Frederick William Conner
Misquoted as "I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy." in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922)
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René-Aubert Vertot (1655–1735) French historian
Mon siège est fait.
As quoted in Balzac's La Vendetta (1830).
Vertot's reply "when some documents were brought to him for his History of the Order of Malta and the Siege of Rhodes. He had already finished his history and said, when the documents arrived, J'en suis fâché mais, etc. (I am sorry but, etc.)" — as reported in Famous Sayings and Their Authors (1906) by Edward Latham, p. 152; source given is "d'Alembert Réflexions sur l'histoire, read to the French Academy, Jan. 19, 1761."
“Damn boudas. I tell him he's under siege and he goes to take a nap.”
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Om Swami (1979) Indian mystic
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“The party is Hitler, Hitler is Germany, and Germany is Hitler! Sieg heil!”
Rudolf Hess (1894–1987) German Nazi leader
At Nuremberg, 1934
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Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
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"Caribbean Cold War" http://www.redpepper.org.uk/latin/x-may96-pinter.htm, Red Pepper (May 1996).