“The victor belongs to the spoils.”

“Life is gamble, It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle."

-Acheron”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“History is always written by the victor and histories of the vanquished belong to a shrinking circle of those who were there.”

Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer

“The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.”

John Maynard Keynes book The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“A critic recently denounced my Victor Hugo, declaring the treatment belonged not to sculpture but to music. He said it reminded him of a symphony by Beethoven. Heaven grant that he spoke the truth!”

Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor

“Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

“Be a victor, not a victim.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“History is written by the victors.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

“History is the propaganda of the victors.”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist