“Once and for all
the idea of glorious victories
won by the glorious army
must be wiped out
Neither side is glorious
On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants
and they all want the same thing
Not to lie under the earth
but to walk upon it
without crutches”
Roux, act 1, scene 19 (p. 45)
Marat/Sade (1963)
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XV. 563–564 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Let Rome be glorious on the earth,
The centre of Italian worth.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XII, p. 472
Marlborough's message to Sarah Churchill scribbled on the back of a tavern reckoning while on horseback during the Battle of Blenheim (13 August 1704), quoted in Correlli Barnett, Marlborough (Wordsworth, 1999), p. 121.
Individualism and Socialism (1933)
Context: Pacific revolution in America will not be wrought by men who are afraid of losing influence, position, and income. Building a new world is the most perilous form of pioneering, and the most glorious victories of religion have ever been won in hours of fiercest danger. And so it will be in our day.
“Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.”
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 57
Remember Thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.