Arbitrary Quote by Edward Gibbon

Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no…

— Kristin Cashore

I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be honest I…

— Prue Leith

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

— Hosea Ballou

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community…

— George Washington

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your…

— William Hazlitt

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce…

— George Washington

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

— Anonymous

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

— Pope Pius IX

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other…

— Martial

I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.

— Abigail Adams

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

— Henry David Thoreau

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

— Theodore Parker