Prate Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live…
— Mercedes McCambridge
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We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
— Learned Hand
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And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton…
— Richard Hovey
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Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a…
— Nicholas Samstag
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If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good,…
— Mao Zedong
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A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and…
— William Shakespeare
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Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs…
— Homer
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I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I…
— Elizabeth I
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What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What…
— Chanakya
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The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect…
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Prate Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Prate Quotes as follows: