A Quote by Isoroku Yamamoto

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

Isoroku Yamamoto

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Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese - Military man
April 4, 1884 - April 18, 1943

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.

Isoroku Yamamoto

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

Victor Hugo

When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.

David Otunga

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

R. H. Tawney

I was always smitten by the mainstream Hindi commercial cinema.

Satish Kaushik

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Aeschylus

War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Carl Sandburg

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

Thomas Carlyle

Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

Thomas Campbell

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

Judy Woodruff

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Michael Shurtleff

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

Ed Westwick

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

John Owen

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

Sherry Turkle

It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you....Once the warm, salty butter has hit your tongue, you are smitten. Putty in their hands.

Nigel Slater

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