J. Christopher Herold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
-- J. Christopher Herold

#Mistake #Good Luck #Merit
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
-- J. Christopher Herold

#Program #Prelude #Dictatorship
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.
-- J. Christopher Herold

#Princess #Heart #Men
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.
-- J. Christopher Herold

#Queens #Principles #Reform
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.
-- J. Christopher Herold

#War #Mistake #Tyrants
His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other's enemies. Mr. Fox, who was Mr. Pitt's enemy (although many of his friends were Mr. Pitt's friends), had always stood uncompromisingly for peace with France and held dangerously liberal opinions; nevertheless, in 1804, Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt got together to overthrow Mr. Pitt's friend Mr. Addington, who was pushing the war effort with insufficient vigor.
-- J. Christopher Herold

#War #Effort #Enemy

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
This is new for me. I'm learning how to have a realtionship with someone other than Ashton. I made a horrible mistake. It was like a relapse. But you," I reached up and tucked the tear dampened hair that had worked its way loose behind her ear. "You touch a place inside of me that Ashton never did. I feel things with you I never felt for her. I loved her for a very long time. I can't help the fact I still want to be there if she needs me. Next time there is a choice to make it will be you I choose first. I can promise you that.
Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
Things worthwhile generally donâ€™t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, youâ€™ll also, by implication â€¦ believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

J. Christopher Herold famous quotes

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