High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is… — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition -… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the… — Segolene Royal Copy Share Image
I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
