Famous quotes containing the words victorious and/or army:
“Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)