Eminence Quotes

57 Eminence quotes by 51 unique authors

Sauces comprise the honor and glory of French cookery. They have contributed to its superiority, or pre-eminence, which is disputed by none. Sauces are the… — Curnonsky
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time. — Katharine Anthony
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly… — Richard Baxter
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. — Ernest Bramah
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least… — Adam Clarke
Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy. — Zachary Taylor
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man… — William Hazlitt
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its… — Horace Mann
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust… — Sydney J. Harris
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are… — William Shakespeare
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an… — Igor Stravinsky
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. — Seneca the Younger
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence. — Samuel Johnson
I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention… — John Steinbeck
My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England. — Kedar Joshi
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. — Edmund Burke
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self,… — Mitt Romney
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. — Jonathan Swift
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of… — William Ellery Channing
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be… — Moderata Fonte
Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence. . . and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of… — Irvin D. Yalom
If you go to the city of Washington, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of congress, and… — Eugene V. Debs
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the… — Orson F. Whitney
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot… — Igor Stravinsky

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