#victor

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#enemy #fight #victory

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#dress #family #full #great-grandfather #incredibly

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#half #prepared #victory

To be prepared is half the victory. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#half #prepared #victory

History is written by the victors. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#victors #written

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#before #defeat #had #never #victory

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#because #definitely #easy #first #going

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#like #looks #major #military #only