top of page

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"

William Collins, English Poet

Nation, Country, Rest, Sleep, Wishes

17

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"

Exlpore more Nation quotes

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Nation, Nations, Right

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

Nation, Country, Storms

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Nation, Countries, States, United

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Nation, Country

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Nation, Country, Democrats, Republican, Republicans

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Nation, Country, Paris

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Nation, Country, Dignity, Importance, Office

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Nation, Country

"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."

Jay Rockefeller, American Politician

Nation, Country, Iraq, Stability, States

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Nation, Rest, Will

Explore more quotes by William Collins

"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."

"I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more."

"Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing."

"Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead."

"Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath."

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."

"When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry."

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"

bottom of page