Once Quotes

I hated you because you reminded me of...how I once was...of what I lost.

Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall.

Matthew Arnold

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Beckett

Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can't you, once in a way? I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.

Samuel Beckett

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confidedit is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Of three in One and One in three My narrow mind would doubting be Till Beauty, Grace and Kindness met And all at once were Juliet.

Joseph Hilaire Pierre Ren Belloc

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Milton Berle

I once spent an hour and a half trying to explain a situation to "Sepp" Dietrich with the aid of a map. It was quite useless. He understood nothing at all.

Wilhelm Bittrich

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Nicolas Boileau-Despraux

You cannot treat with all the world at once.

Napoleon Bonaparte

So Britains monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.

James Bramston

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