Admirable Quote by Margery Allingham Download Open image “If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance” — Margery Allingham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admirable Admirable qualities Attention Command Focus Nuisance Quality
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention. — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it,… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know,… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story.… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“No.' He spoke with a tenderness unexpected in him. 'No, lady, no. Put that clean out of your mind. That dear chap and his… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image