Ramparts Quotes

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. — Charlie Chaplin

These little towns were once the bold ramparts meant to shelter just such peace. — Marilynne Robinson

Why was I not made of stone like thee?
Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire]. — Victor Hugo

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue. — Sun Tzu

That was his phrase - "the high ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build and then describe my own ramparts. — Brock Clarke

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee? — Victor Hugo

I walk the ramparts at night in a white dress and a knee-length woven cloak. The weather's turning. I feel the roses in my cheeks. — Rainbow Rowell

The castle's predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its ramparts. — Barbara W. Tuchman