Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

See, I have taken England with both my hands

I came. I saw. I conquered.

I shall either perish or reign.

You must either conquer and rule or lose and serve, suffer or triumph, and be the anvil or the hammer.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

To the victors belong the spoils.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.