Medieval War Quotes - Page 4

• It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

  Hernando Cortes

  War, Glimpse, Firsts

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• Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.205, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, War, Philosophical

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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• Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Baseball, War

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• Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Football, Baseball

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