Distinction Quotes

“A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.”

— Jane Austen

Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

— Edward Coke

I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

— Sherlock Holmes

The highest distinction is service to others.

— Max Brooks

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

— Matt Tong

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

— Howard Pyle

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:

— Ken Keyes Jr

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

— Abdus Salam

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

— Orhan Pamuk

Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.

— Heraclitus

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

— William Wilberforce

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.

— Mary Abigail Dodge

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge…

— Catharine Sedgwick

“My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach “normal” has brought me to ponder whether “normal” even exists, or if it…

— Dan Pearce

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think…

— Jane Austen

Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or…

— Russell Smith

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

— Benjamin Tucker

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that…

— Robert Frost

The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent…

— Diana Trilling

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe,…

— Samuel Johnson

An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of…

— Ayn Rand

... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who…

— Ambrose

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…

— Humphry Davy

The way to make better decisions is to make more of them. Then make sure you learn from each one, including those…

— Anthony Hopkins

If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is…

— Simon Critchley

For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For…

— John Calvin

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to…

— Rebecca Goldstein

If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return…

— Richard Moss

One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From…

— Stephen Hawking

I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in…

— Sulak Sivaraksa

A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't…

— Charles Edward Montague

The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof…

— Georg Cantor

Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction…

— Deborah Lupton

I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think…

— Randy Barnett

We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand