Mere Accident Quotes
- Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he… — Ian Kershaw
- If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a… — Alma Gluck
- No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown… — James Bryce
- One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. — Alma Gluck
- The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied… — Max Beerbohm
- Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge