Chiefest Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one by one. It…
— Henry Edward Manning
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It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for…
— Mark Twain
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Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
— Hilaire Belloc
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So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all…
— Izaak Walton
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The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common,…
— Euripides
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those…
— John Dryden
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O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all…
— Thomas Ken
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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
— Thomas Gray
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Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.
— William Shakespeare
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and…
— Simonides
Who Wrote These Chiefest Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Chiefest Quotes as follows: