Poor Figure Quotes
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. — Honore de Balzac
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets… — William James
- The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very… — George Bernard Shaw
- Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had… — William Ernest Henley
- Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were… — Ilka Chase