Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

Unproductive effort is never a good thing.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

This dream of King’s is going to be turned into a nightmare

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

But nothing seems to do any good.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

I don't know what the future holds. It seems to be going in a really bad, bad place really quickly, and I don't have the answers and I don't have the solutions and I don't know what's gonna happen to change it. But the continued apathy will only lead to a worse situation for everybody.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.