Sacrifice Quotes

“Pain pays the income of each precious thing.”

“She is your treasure, she must have a husband;I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.”

“We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.”

“I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.”

“For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.”

“The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.”

“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.”

“If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.”

“More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.”

“Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.”

“Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!”

“The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.”

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”

“We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?”

“Old men make war, young men fight and die”

“We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.”

“The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.”

“An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.”

“We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!”

“Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.”

“This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors”

“I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

“What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.”

“The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”