Never

Never give in — never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~ Winston Churchill

Quotes using the idea of Never

• Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen.

Quotes

• Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
  Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
  Never met - or never parted,
  We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
  • Robert Burns, Ae Fond Kiss

• Never give in — never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
  • Winston Churchill, Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23 ISBN 1586486381

• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
  • Winston Churchill, Speech in the House of Commons, 20 August 1940 [1]

• Captain: Though related to a peer,
  I can hand, reef, and steer,
  And ship a selvagee;
  I am never known to quail
  At the fury of a gale,
  And I'm never, never sick at sea!
  Chorus: What, never?
  Captain: No, never!
  Chorus: What, never?
  Captain: Hardly ever!
  • W. S. Gilbert, H. M. S. Pinafore

• To get mixed up with a man who says never
  May be big trouble, but then
  I just could be the woman to take you
  And make you never say never again.
  • Never Say Never Again theme lyrics by Lani Hall, (1983).

• Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
  Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
  But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
  When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
  • Rudyard Kipling The Ballad of East and West

• Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'.
  • Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

• No, no, no life!
  Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
  And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
  Never, never, never, never, never!
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, scene iii

• And silence their mourning
  With vows of returning
  But never intending to visit them more.
  No never, no never, intending to visit them more.
  
  • Nahum Tate, Dido and Aeneas (music by Henry Purcell)

• Thou shalt hear the 'Never, never', whispered by the phantom years.
  • Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall, line 83

• Her uncle drove a taxi which he had purchased on the 'never never' system. You pay $80 down and more than you can afford for the rest of your life.
  • Edgar Wallace, novel "More Educated Evans" (1926)

• I'll love you till the bluebells forget to bloom;
  I'll love you till the clover has lost its perfume.
  I'll love you till the poets run out of rhyme,
  Until the twelfth of never and that's a long, long time.
  • The Twelfth of Never, by Paul Webster & Jerry Livingston [2]

• The Moment of Death; or, The Never, Never Land
  • Israel Zangwill, Title of play (1900)

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• Never Give up Quotes