Lost Confidence

Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or confidence:

    Good-bye, good luck, struck the sun and the moon,
    To the fisherman lost on the land.
    He stands alone at the door of his home,
    With his long-legged heart in his hand.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.... He was fixed in the house of lords, that hospital of incurables, and his retreat to popularity was cut off; for the confidence of the public, when once great and once lost, is never to be regained.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)