Horatio Quotes

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

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!

woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

More matter with less art.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

Just sick enough to be totally confident

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

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

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

England expects that every man will do his duty.

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

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

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

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

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.

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio Alger were alive today, heʼd want to be just like Dr. Palmisano, one of the true Renaissance men Iʼve had the privilege and pleasure of knowing! On Leadership continues in his tradition of excellence.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

I cannot command winds and weather.

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.

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.

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

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

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

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

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

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

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

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

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.

From this time forth My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

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.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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

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.

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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

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.

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?

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

This above all; to thine own self be true.

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