Perdre Mais perdre vraiment Pour laisser place a'   la trouvaille Perdre La vie pour trouver laVictoire. To lose But really to lose And make room for discovery To lose Life so as to discover Victory.

-Kostrowitzki
  Calligrammes,'Toujours'.

Statisticsarethetriumphofthequantitativemethod, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterilityand death.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  The Silence of the Sea.

   In retrospect it always seems as if everything had to develop just the way it did. I call this view the fallacy of retrospective determinismöwhich looks at the modern world as a victory of the children of light over the children of darkness if we approve of the development, and of darkness over light if we condemn it.

-Bendix, Reinhard
  Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology.

He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord Gwill wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the L hath spoken it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
OD ORDIsaiah 25:8.

The first wrote,Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote,Women are strongest: but above all thingsTruth beareth away the victory.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Esdras 3:10^12.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew12:20.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:55.

My Sword, I give to him that shall succeed me in my Pilgrimage, and my Courage and Skill, to himthat can get it. My Marks and Scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that Ihave fought his Battles, who now will be my Rewarder† As he went, he said,Death, where is thy Sting? And as he went down deeper, he said,Grave where is thy Victory? So he passed over, and the Trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

-Bunyan,John
  Mr Valiant-for-Glory. The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.2.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed,ö Or to victorie!ö Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power, Chains and Slaverie!

-Burns, Robert
  'Bruce's  Address at Bannockburn', stanza1.

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
c.1918  The Second World War (1948), vol.1, epigraph.  According to Sir Edward Marsh, in  A Number of People (1939), the phrase occurred to Churchill shortly after the end of  World War I. Some sources attribute it to Marsh himself.

You ask what is our aim. I can answer in one wordö victory.Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Radio broadcast,1 Oct.

   In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Of Montgomery. Quoted in Sir Edward Howard Marsh  Ambrosia and Small Beer (1964), ch.5.

Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de¤  faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.

-de Beauvoir, Simone
  Tous les hommes sont mortels (All Men  Are Mortal).

   Let 'Dig for Victory' be the motto of everyone with a garden and of every able-bodied man and woman capable of digging an allotment in their spare time.

-Doram-Smith, Sir Reginald Hugh
  Radio broadcast, 3 Oct.

The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

-Drake, Sir Francis
  Letter to Elizabeth I,13  Apr.

He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.

-Dryden,John
  Of Ben  Jonson.  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben  Jonson Compared'.

No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed each gazing eye; To none of these I yield as thrall. For why my mind doth serve for all.

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

-Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of
c.1687  Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Prerogative, Power and Liberty'.

I am persuaded now that I have a better prospect than MrsThatcher of leading the Conservatives to a fourth electoral victoryand preventing the ultimate calamity of a Labour government.

-Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron
  On announcing his decision to stand for the leadership, Nov.

Victory switches from man to man.

-Homer   8c
c.700  BC  Iliad, bk.6, l.339 (translated by Martin Hammond).