Defeat Quotes

Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

The only way you can keep someone in the gutter is to get down there with them.

Up a tree.

All washed up.

Victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never – in nothing great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. (Origin of the term “Pyrrhic victory)