Famous quotes containing the word triumph:
“Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader whos out in front of nobody?... Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“This conflict between the powers of love and chastity ... it ended apparently in the triumph of chastity. Love was suppressed, held in darkness and chains, by fear, conventionality, aversion, or a tremulous yearning to be pure.... But this triumph of chastity was only an apparent, a pyrrhic victory. It would break through the ban of chastity, it would emergeif in a form so altered as to be unrecognizable.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“When Learnings Triumph oer her barbrous Foes
First reard the Stage, immortal Shakespear rose;
Each Change of many-colourd Life he drew,
Exhausted Worlds, and then imagind new:”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)