Horatio Quotes

• Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

  Horatio Nelson

  Victory And Defeat, Differences, Minutes

  "Jessie Peabody. Sea Fighters from Drake to Farragut". Book by Jessie Peabody Frothingham, 1902.

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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Spiritual, Philosophy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 166

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• My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

  Horatio Nelson

  Character, Names, Disgrace

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

  Horatio Nelson

  Fighting, Sea, Chance

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• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

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• If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

  Horatio Nelson

  Fighting, Men, Hands

  Horatio Nelson's statement, August 1801.

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• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, War, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 105

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• I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

  Horatio Nelson

  Humor, Safety, Saving

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• What if this cursed hand
  Were thicker than itself with brother's blood
  Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves
  To wash it white as snow?

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Brother

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Imagination, Gorges

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Epic Poems, Voice

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Sound, Judgment

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.54, Sparklesoup LLC

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• No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

  Horatio Nelson

  Courage, War, Enemy

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, Kings, Offending

  Horatio Nelson's letter to his mistress Lady Hamilton, 1800.

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• I cannot command winds and weather.

  Horatio Nelson

  Wind, Weather, Command

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

  Horatio Nelson

  Inspirational, War, Victory

  Horatio Nelson's remark before the battle of the Nile, August 1, 1797.

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• Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

  Horatio Nelson

  Desperate Measures, Affair, Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

  "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras (p. 54), 1992.

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• Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice
  And could of men distinguish her election,
  Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Men, Choices

  William Shakespeare, Philip Edwards (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Favour, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  Claudius

  Language And Power, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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• The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Memorable, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [242]

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