COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
|
|
Home Page |
GIGA Quotes |
Biographical Name Index |
Chronological Name Index |
Topic List |
Reading List |
Site Notes |
Crossword Solver |
Anagram Solver |
Subanagram Solver |
LexiThink Game |
Anagram Game |
Whatever interests, is interesting. - [Interest] When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away. - [Reading] Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. - [Wit] Words are the only things that last forever. - [Words] You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. - [Experience] Zeal will do more than knowledge. - [Zeal] He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. - English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases (p. 196) [Moon] A mighty stream of tendency. - Essay--Why Distant Objects Please [Evolution] A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. - quoted by Essays--On Nicknames [Names] Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. - Lectures on the English Comic Writers (lecture 1) [Wit] Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety. - Lectures on the English Comic Writers--On Wit and Humour [Character] The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men. - Lectures on the English Poets (lecture VIII) [Fame] We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. - On the Pleasure of Hating [Ridicule] One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living. - Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 84) [Dentistry] One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world. - Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 86) [Shoemaking] One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. - Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 93) [Tailors] The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. - Table Talk (essay XXII) [Shoemaking] They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. - Table Talk (essay XXVII) [Business] Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. - Table Talk--On Application to Study [Genius] If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators. - Table Talk--On the Ignorance of the Learned [Shakespeare] A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. - Table Talk--On the Look of a Gentleman [Self-love] The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. - Table Talk--On the Past and Future [Affection] There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals. - Table Talk--The Feeling of Immortality in Youth [Youth] He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. - Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power [Greatness] No really great man ever thought himself so. - Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power [Greatness] Displaying page 10 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11
Support GIGA. Buy something from Amazon. |
|