Second Rate Quotes

88 quotes by 70 authors

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. — James Gould Cozzens
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong. — Martin Rees
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own… — Uell Stanley Andersen
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. — Paul-Jean Toulet
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this.… — Laozi
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation,… — Paul McCartney
There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work. — Gerald Finzi
If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of… — Donald O. Clifton
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status ... — Stephen Harper
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but… — Christian D. Larson
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight… — Matt Taibbi
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. — Derek Bailey
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. — Agnes de Mille
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate. — Bruce Oldfield
Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck. — Donald Horne

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70 authors contributed a total of 88 Second Rate Quotes, led by these top contributors: