Our Merits Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope
• I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in… — Gertrude the Great
• True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare
• We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. — Nicolas Malebranche
• [M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out… — Moderata Fonte
• We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. — Rex Stout
• Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. — Paul Eldridge

Who Wrote These Our Merits Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Our Merits Quotes as follows:

• 1 Our Merits Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Our Merits Quote by Alexander Pope
• 1 Our Merits Quote by Gertrude the Great
• 1 Our Merits Quote by Augustus William Hare
• 1 Our Merits Quote by Nicolas Malebranche
• 1 Our Merits Quote by Moderata Fonte
• 1 Our Merits Quote by Rex Stout
• 1 Our Merits Quote by Paul Eldridge