Certain Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above…

— William E. Gladstone

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

— Eugene Ionesco

That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and…

— Charles Baudelaire

To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will only produce…

— Lord Chesterfield

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“In this twilight they were more imagined than seen, but I felt surrounded by the practitioners of a sacred mediocrity, an elegant mediocrity cloistering…

— Denis Johnson

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the…

— Richard Thompson

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

— John Steinbeck

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

— Ivanka Trump

Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally exhausted? Or…

— Henry Giroux