Ruin Quotes

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

The people of the South have too much of good sense, and good temper, to attempt the ruin of the government ... At least, so I hope and believe.