The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

-Alexander the Great
Quoted in Plutarch  Alexander, 40.2.

Un Picasso e¤  tudie un objet comme un chirurgien disse'  que un cadavre. A Picasso studies an object like a surgeon dissects a corpse.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les Peintres cubistes; Me¤  ditations esthe¤  tiques,'Sur la peinture, 2'.

Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed 'with his eye on the object', Dryden fails to render him. Homer invariably composes 'with his eye onthe object', whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture1.

Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has beena critical effort; the endeavours, in all branches of knowledgeötheology, philosophy, history, art, scienceötoseethe object as initself it really is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture 2.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike heröshe was onlyan Object of Contempt.

-Austen,Jane
  Love and Freindship,'Letter the13th'.

Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of Americanmanmorethantheautomobile, or seemsso important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.

-Barr, Alfred Hamilton,Jr
  In news summaries, 31 Dec. / 2

There isnothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it mayölight, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.

-Constable,John
Quoted in C R Leslie Memoirs of theLife of John Constable (1843).

  From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There isgrandeur in this view of life.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
  The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, ch.14.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

-Davies, Robertson
  Of  World War I. Fifth Business, pt.2, ch.1.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in timeö To let the punishment fit the crime.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
   The Mikado's song, The Mikado, act 2.

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

-Giovanni,Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr
  Black Judgement,'Woman Poem'.

Iseriouslyobjecttoseeingonthescreenwhat belongs in the bedroom.

-Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz
Attributed maxim. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion (9th edn,1989).

When I go to see Herr Hitler I give him the Nazi salute because that is the normal thing. It carries no hint of approval of anything he or hisregimemaydo. And, if Ido it, why should you or your team object?

-Henderson, Sir Nevile Meyrick
   When asked for advice by the England football team in 1938 about giving the Nazi salute before a match in Berlin against Germany. The England team gave the salute, and thereby attracted considerable notoriety at home.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.

-Irving,Washington
  Wolfert's Roost,'The Creole Village'.

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.

The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.

-Le¤  ger, Fernand
Quoted in D Cooper The Cubist Epoch (1970).

No one can read a poem unless he realises that it is a physical object as well as an abstract vehicle for conveying ideas. A poem has a material existence like a piece of music or sculpture or a plate of meat.

-MacBeth, George Mann
  Introduction to Poetry1900 to1965.

'Do not shoot,' it shouted.'I am a B-b-british object!'

-Malouf, David
  Remembering Babylon, ch.1.

Wahrscheinlich sindsie der interessantesteReiz und Stoff unseres Nachdenkens und unsererT a« tigkeit. Probably theyare the most interesting stimulus and object of our meditation and our activity.

-Mann,Thomas
  Of illnesses. Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), vol.1.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing, Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown But vainly flapped its tinsel wing.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'The Definition of Love' (published1681).