Greatness Quote by Ben Jonson

“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate…

— Oscar Wilde

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

— Jane Porter

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you…

— Lord Chesterfield

“If with uncorrupted mind you feel good will for even one being, you become skilled from that. But a Noble One produces a mind…

— Gautama Buddha

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In…

— John Adams

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the…

— Plutarch

One need to observe and realise the thin line existing between being good at heart and being foolish !!

— Senoraroy

When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of…

— Zicheng Hong

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the…

— Plutarch