Sentinels Quotes

• The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Prayer, Sleep, Men

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
  The hum of either army stilly sounds,
  That the fixed sentinels almost receive
  The secret whispers of each other's watch.
  Fire answers fire, and through their play flames
  Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
  Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Night

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Army, Challenges, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Body, Highest

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• In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

  C.S. Friedman

  Men, Data, Secret

  C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.11, Penguin

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• Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Thinking, Echoes

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• The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.

  William Habington

  Stars, Sky

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• Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

  Scott Cunningham

  Vegetables, Years, Long

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• We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Liberty, Watches

  Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.82

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• Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

  Brigham Young

  Father, House, Departed

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Virtue, Conscience

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• The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
  [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Eye, Body, Highest

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• That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us.

  Robert Grudin

  Life, Change, Morning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue, Guarded, Scarce

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 5

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• How beautiful it is for a man to die
  Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
  Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
  To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Death, Wall

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1868). “The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous”, p.110

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• If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fall, Tired, Sleep

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1925.

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• There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

  Fidel Castro

  Fall, Waiting, Smoking Cigars

  Fidel Castro (1969). “Fidel Castro Speaks”

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• There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Men, Race

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.16

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• Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell

  Brigham Young

  Father, Angel, Keys

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• Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

  George D. Prentice

  Habit, Fortresses, Proportion

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• Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

  William Henry Ashley

  War, Party, Spy

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• Sentinel meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.” “Time?” ... “Seven. Sascha's doing dinner.” “God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.

  Nalini Singh

  Cooking, Tonight, Dinner

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Branded by Fire”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it’s not better to just remain quiet.” “With all your customs,” Eragon risked saying, “it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.” A smile flickered across her lips. “Perhaps.

  Christopher Paolini

  Queens, People, Different

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.799, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

  James G. Frazer

  Kings, Woods, Golden

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.

  Daniel Defoe

  Sleep, Dark, Wickedness

  Daniel Defoe (2015). “The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Bealau Known by the Name of Lady Roxana”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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