Rarest Quotes

115 Rarest quotes by 97 unique authors

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. — Thomas More
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. — Jean Genet
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to… — John Lahr
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities. — Vance Havner
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook… — Adam Gopnik
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. — Milovan ?ilas
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the… — Walter Lippmann
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. — Alexander Crummell
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its… — Theophilus London
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. — William Hazlitt
In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself. — Brian Williams
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it… — William E. Gladstone
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their… — Charles Caleb Colton
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. — Benjamin Disraeli
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. — Elizabeth Edwards
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. — Ernest Hemingway
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. — James Lafferty
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public… — Anita Loos
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food.… — Jonathan Sacks
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. — Henry David Thoreau
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. — Walt Disney
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the… — Wilkie Collins
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. — Jeremy Bentham

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