Eminence Quotes
- I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up… — King George V
- The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically… — James Fenton
- Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There… — George Bernard Shaw
- It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of… — Sydney Smith
- It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends — Samuel Johnson
- What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science — Thomas Carlyle
- If there be one God subsisting in three persons, then let us give equal reverence to all the persons in the Trinity. There is not… — Thomas Watson