“Where words prevail not, violence prevails;
But gold doth more than either of them both.”
Act II, sc. i
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
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Thomas Kyd11
English dramatist 1558–1594Related quotes
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 21, “The Frightened Ones” (p. 491).
“What doth it serve to see sun's burning face,
And skies enamelled with both the Indies' gold?”
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) British writer
"What doth it Serve?"
Poems (1616)
Context: What doth it serve to see sun's burning face,
And skies enamelled with both the Indies' gold?
Or moon at night in jetty chariot roll'd,
And all the glory of that starry place?
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
La puissance qui s'acquiert par la violence n'est qu'une usurpation, et ne dure qu'autant que la force de celui qui commande l'emporte sur celle de ceux qui obéissent.
Article on Political Authority, Vol. 1 (1751)
L'Encyclopédie (1751-1766)
Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter (1909–1988) Marquess of Exeter
Thus It Is, 1989, p. 1
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings, Thus It Is
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
Pharaoh, Book X, line 688
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Context: Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns;
it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies,
they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm,
the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air.
I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song,
for I know well that only words, that words alone,
like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.
