Greatness Quote by P.G. Wodehouse

“Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”

— Victor Hugo

“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”

— John Calvin

“few are so conformist as rebellious youth.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice…

— Louise Bogan

“Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“but there is always something suspicious, to my mind, in the little shrill hurrahs which are kept up by the youthful tea drinkers at…

— Emily Eden

“men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.”

— Tocqueville de

“The most common occurrence in this world of ours, in these days of stumbling blindly forward, is to come across men and women mature…

— José Saramago

“It follows that some people need open enemies if they are to rise to the level of their own virtue, virility, and cheerfulness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed…

— Herman Melville

“Youth is a kind of madness. The wisest young men are they who follow the good example of the old, and the most foolish…

— John Wortabet

“Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably,…

— Thomas Hughes