COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Topic | Authors by Date | | |||
A poor idle man cannot be an honest man. - [Idleness] A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel. - [Faults] Delicacy is the coquetry of truth; fastidiousness is the prudery of falsehood. - [Delicacy] Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit. - [Delicacy] Envy pierces more in the restriction of praises than in the exaggeration of its criticisms. - [Envy] Good taste is the flower of good sense. - [Taste] It is natural to covet just what we have not. - [Avarice] It is wrong to believe that frank sentiments and the candor of the mind are the exclusive share of the young; they ornament oftentimes old age, upon which they seem to spread a chaste reflection of the modest graces of their younger days, where they shine with the same brightness as those flowers which are often seen peeping, fresh and laughing, from among ruins. - [Frankness] It seems as if prudence exhaled a perfume. - [Prudence] Self-abnegation is a trait most often seen in women, rarely in men. - [Unselfishness] The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts. - [Gratitude] There are certain epochs in art when simplicity is audacious originality. - [Art] There are certain occasions when, in art, simplicity is an audacious originality. - [Simplicity] There are some people who think that all the world should share their misfortune, although they do not share in the sufferings of anybody else. - [Selfishness] We are solemnly obliged to the children of those who have loved us. - [Obligation]
|
|
