KENN'S FAVORITE HISTORICAL & LITERARY QUOTES

As an English Major and Historian, I have quite a fondness for various quotations uttered throughout the annals of history and literature.

Here are some of my all-time favorites....

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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - Winston Churchill

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." " - Winston Churchill

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - General George S. Patton Jr.

"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton Jr.

"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." - Revelation 6:7, 8

"Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt