Edward III of England quotes

“Let the boy win his spurs.”
-- Edward III of England

Source : "Chroniques". Book by Jean Froissart, trans. Geoffrey Brereton, 1968, Book 1, p. 92, 1369 - 1400.

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“Of the Black Prince [his son] at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. [Old English] Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.”
-- Edward III of England

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“Evil to him who evil thinks.”
-- Edward III of England

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”

“I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.”

“Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.”

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.”

“But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.”

“Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,”

“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”

“I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'”