| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47901 |
| QUOTATION: | Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), French aviator, author. Flight to Arras, ch. 1 (1942). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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