"I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I……" — Edward Dahlberg

"I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks."

— Edward Dahlberg

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57 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless…
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the…
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck,…
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against…
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either…
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before…
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce…
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even…

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More Character Quotes

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about… — J. J. Abrams
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was… — Lance Armstrong
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a… — Rowan Atkinson
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things -… — Rowan Atkinson

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