Generally Quotes

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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and… — Galileo Galilei
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore de Balzac
He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own...… — Leonardo da Vinci
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,… — Samuel Johnson
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the… — John Cheever
In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The… — John Burroughs
Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners. — Lord Chesterfield
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. — Juvenal
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider… — Jimmy Carter
I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances.… — Christine Lagarde
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy. — Jean Paul Gaultier
Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of… — Lauren Bacall
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be… — David Sedaris
It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them… — Anna Garlin Spencer
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very… — Michael Pollan
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art… — Robert Henri

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