Quite Quotes - page 2

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. (William Cobbett)
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. View quote
Matthew Arnold
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed. View quote
Sara Teasdale
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. View quote
William Cowper
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. View quote
Bill Watterson
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. View quote
Agatha Christie
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe. (John Aubrey)
I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful. View quote
Vincent Gallo
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. View quote
William Osler
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. View quote
Desmond Tutu
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Only the insane take themselves quite seriously. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. View quote
Dan Quayle
The man that blushes is not quite a brute. View quote
Edward Young
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. View quote
Edward Young
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. (Francis Ford Coppola)
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. View quote
Brian Tracy
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. View quote
C. S. Lewis
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. View quote
Albert Einstein
The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43) View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein