Least Quotes - page 6

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. (Oscar Wilde)
You and I will meet again When we're least expecting it. One day in some far off place I will recognize your face. I won't say good-bye my friend, For you and I will meet again. View quote
Tom Petty
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow. View quote
William Cowper
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. View quote
Henry Fielding
Promise is most given when the least is said. View quote
George Chapman
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. (T. S. Eliot)
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. View quote
Carl Jung
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes. View quote
John L. Lewis
Of all lies, art is the least untrue. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. View quote
George Steiner
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book. View quote
David Deutsch
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. View quote
Lord Byron
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. (Miguel de Cervantes)
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect... Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss