Second Rate Quotes

88 quotes by 70 authors

Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or… — Bob Brown
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive. — Mary Jane Ward
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. — Horace
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the… — Oscar Wilde
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art… — Stephen Neill
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. — Cyril Connolly
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures,… — Sam Houston
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when… — Doris Lessing
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the… — A A Milne
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. — Leo Rosten
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent… — Marjane Satrapi
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly… — Douglas Adams
It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have… — C.S. Lewis
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is… — Joyce Carol Oates
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. — W. Somerset Maugham

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