Poor Figure Quotes

5 quotes by 5 authors

• 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

Who Wrote These Poor Figure Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 5 Poor Figure Quotes as follows:

• 1 Poor Figure Quote by Honore de Balzac
• 1 Poor Figure Quote by William James
• 1 Poor Figure Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Poor Figure Quote by William Ernest Henley
• 1 Poor Figure Quote by Ilka Chase