Delicious Quote by John Trumbull

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

— Agnes Repplier

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

— Hannah Arendt

The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth.…

— Joseph Kastein

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

— Thomas Nashe

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and…

— Alexander Pushkin

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us!…

— Thomas Merton

“In brief, the very quintessence of all meditative concentrations of both the sutras and the tantras of the great vehicle is to see, through…

— Karl Brunnholzl

I think some people would understand the quintessence of sanctifying grace if they could be black about twenty-four hours.

— Amanda Smith

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull…

— John Donne

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.

— Murray Rothbard