"Duty is what no-one else will do at…" — Penelope Fitzgerald
"Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment."
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Penelope Fitzgerald
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17 Quotes by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald has 17 quotes on this site.
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I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other…
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More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the…
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The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of…
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A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is…
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I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated,…
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Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.
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It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the…
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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out…
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings…
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond…
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Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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