Quite Quotes - page 5

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face. (Daisy Ashford)
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's. View quote
Alexander Woollcott
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.' View quote
Charles Lamb
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets. View quote
Björk
At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living. View quote
Neil Postman
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad. (T. H. White)
In this book, I try to understand the challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond. This is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
It's unpleasant to find that what you had thought of as moral scruples suddenly seem not quite so important in the face of a stack of money. View quote
John Varley
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. View quote
Edward Young
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign Jackie Collins and they go away quite content. View quote
Robertson Davies
They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them. View quote
Joyce Grenfell
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. (Paul Eldridge)
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective. View quote
Carroll Quigley
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar. View quote
Mark Twain
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. View quote
Mark Twain