Fatal Quotes

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.