Defeated Hardy

Famous quotes containing the words defeated and/or hardy:

“If I am defeated for the next nomination, I think it will be by [Charles Evans] Hughes. And I don’t think he will allow his name to be used unless he really feels that I have no chance to win. I do not think Theodore Roosevelt will allow his name to come before the convention.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

“Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson’s damn.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)