Known Quote by Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Download Open image “Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.” — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Known
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown. — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“To know someone, to be known. That matters more than he'd ever thought it would.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good. — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I always bump into people that Ive met. Not great friends, but if I bump into somebody Ive known and I wont recognise them.… — Dario Franchitti Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image