Like every great failure in history, each of his actions had seemed like a good idea at the time.

The result of the campaign was a great failure for England.

This paper was a great failure, and I am ashamed of it.

We have no long poems this close to being great that are greater failures.

"Is that such a great failure of enterprise and achievement?"

In policy terms, I think his great failure as president was on civil liberties.

This wasn't a great big spectacular failure from a company that tried hard, gave it its all, but still couldn't succeed.

"I think it will be either a great success or a great failure," he said.

Always comparing, and at the moments of my greatest success, feeling like I was a great failure.

It would take a great failure indeed to bring her down from grace.