Chief Quotes

993 quotes by 746 authors

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of… — Hilary Mantel
The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith. — Chester Bowles
The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus. — H. L. Mencken
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world â€”â€”- the cowboy songs of Texas and the… — J. Frank Dobie
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. — Carl Nielsen
The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live… — Lyman Spitzer
Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he… — John F. Kennedy
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
Security is the chief enemy of mortals. — William Shakespeare
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief… — Cynthia Ozick
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he… — Aaron Allston
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it. — George MacDonald

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