Whilst Quotes

257 Whilst quotes by 186 unique authors

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last… — Giacomo Casanova
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows… — Steven Erikson
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on… — Jane Austen
To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western… — Michel Houellebecq
The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck… — Douglas Adams
Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya. — Miranda Hart
Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman… — George R. R. Martin
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time. — Edmund Spenser
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. — Thomas de Quincey
Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with… — Edmund Burke
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there… — Emma Thompson
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give… — Confucius
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. — Confucius
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day… — Mark Twain
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and… — Aaron Koblin
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with… — George Muller
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. — Hanneli Mustaparta
I like shopping from the comfort of my bed whilst my husband is asleep beside me. — Ashley Madekwe
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us… — Brian Harris
The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry. — Harold Stephen Black
It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in… — Richard Rogers
If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty… — Dudley North
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,… — Isaac Newton

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