Horatio Quotes - Page 3

• I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Hamlet And Ophelia, Daggers

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [420]

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• The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mean, Enemy, Battle

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.443, Cambridge University Press

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• O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Kings, Science

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, Believe, Forgiving

  Horatio Nelson's statement regarding the attack on Bastia, Corsica (May 3, 1794) as quoted in "The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, with Notes by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Volume I: 1777-1794" edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (p. 393), 1845.

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• Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [76]

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• No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

  Horatio Alger

  Wall, College, Years

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• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

  William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

  Horatio Nelson

  Running, Long Ago, Should Have

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.353

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• Just sick enough to be totally confident

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sick, Fear And Loathing, Enough

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.201, Vintage

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• The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

  Horatio Alger

  Prayer, Night, Fasting

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• Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

  Horatio Alger

  Art, War, School

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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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• 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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• 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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• I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Regret, Book, Reading

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As Hamlet tells his friend, ``There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try harder to dream!

  Gregory Chaitin

  Dream, Philosophy, Heaven

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• I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Inexplicable, Explanation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.

  Andy Cohen

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

  Jimmy Carter

  Leader, All Time, Nations

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• One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.

  Rob Huebel

  Iraq, Comedy, Shows

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exist". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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