Lady Gregory Quotes

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Nothing more can be done for your interests or well-being and that I myself am an obstacle to the restoration of good relations between my brother [Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparte] and this land… I shall never forget so good and virtuous a people as yourselves. My last thought and last concern will be for your happiness…

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

[Of Napoleon BonaparteII:] His mind was a kind of extinct sulfur pit.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Napoleon—mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.

Mr. [Winston] Churchill has been one of the few—the very few—who have significantly and beneficently affected the course of events … How seldom can this be said of anyone.

[Writing about Napoleon Bonaparte:] That infernal creature who is the curse of the human race becomes every day more and more abominable.

A great man represents a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists of his being there.

[Napoleon Bonaparte:] A very great mind, and a rather small soul.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

What millions died – that Caesar might be great!

A great man is always willing to be little.

If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.

I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.

Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation's greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

Long after Donald Trump is no longer President Trump, I know there will still be a relationship there.

The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

Great men can't be ruled.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.