Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal. — Erich Fromm
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the… — Oscar Wilde
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our… — Oscar Wilde
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it… — Harper Lee
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. — Richard Lamm
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with… — William Ernest Henley
We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact… — Logan Pearsall Smith
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. — Phillips Brooks
Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his… — Herman Melville
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. — Simone de Beauvoir
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the… — Alfred North Whitehead
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete… — John Steinbeck
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to… — Andy Warhol
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. — Karl Kraus
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous. — William S. Burroughs
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for… — John Cage
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without… — George Sand
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality. — George Wald
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We… — Jonathan Raban
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland. — Vanessa Mae
I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be… — Jo Nesbo
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something… — Will Oldham
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz

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