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His Best Quotes by Alec Guinness
- An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman,…
- An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize…
More His Best Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one… — Jim Bishop
- To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented… — Willa Cather
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes
- The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
- When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes… — Joseph Addison
- The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best. — Edgar Guest
- Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,… — Richard Sibbes
- Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many… — Walter Russell
- The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by… — C. Wright Mills