Booker Prize Winning

Famous quotes containing the words prize and/or winning:

“He saw, he wish’d, and to the prize aspir’d.
Resolv’d to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a lover’s toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain’d his ends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.”
—French proverb.