Certain Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being…

— 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

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

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for…

— Denise Levertov

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

— C. S. Lewis

Society celebrates mediocrity so much that it does not take much to set yourself above the rest.

— Senora Roy

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

— Sean Plott

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

— Charles G. Dawes

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

— Eugene Ionesco

Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.

— Mason Cooley

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

— Graham Cooke