Quite Quotes

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad)
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one,but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. View quote
Leo Burnett
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. View quote
Amartya Sen
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. View quote
George Orwell
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. View quote
William Howard Taft
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. View quote
Winston Churchill
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. View quote
Herbert Simon
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. (George S. Patton)
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. View quote
Scott Adams
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. View quote
Cary Grant
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood. View quote
Beverly Cleary
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. View quote
George Eliot
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable. View quote
Richard Wagner
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. (Thomas Carlyle)
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. View quote
W. H. Auden
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. View quote
William Saroyan