Behold the man.
The Bible · The source reads: “Ecce homo. Behold the man.” · John 19:5. The familiar King James wording; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the Book of Common Prayer psalter.
The quotes that made history: the lines said at the great moments, from Pericles to Churchill and Mandela, each checked to the record.
The Bible · The source reads: “Ecce homo. Behold the man.” · John 19:5. The familiar King James wording; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the Book of Common Prayer psalter.
The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 44:14
The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 44:1
The Bible · Isaiah 14:12
The Bible · Numbers 23:23
Xenophon
Thomas Wolsey · Cavendish 'Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey' (1641) p. 113.
Woodrow Wilson
Duke of Wellington
Duke of Wellington
Attributed to Duke of Wellington · Montalembert 'De l'Avenir Politique de l'Angleterre' (1856). The attribution was refuted by the 7th Duke.
Josiah Wedgwood
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster
Often credited to George Washington · The cherry tree story was invented by Parson Weems; the line is Mark Twain's joke.
Robert Walpole
Voltaire · The source reads: “En effet, l'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
Queen Victoria · The source reads: “He [Mr Gladstone] speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.”
Attributed to Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
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