Different Quote by Ruth Benedict

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of…

— Ambrose Bierce

You conquer error by denying its verity.

— Mary Baker Eddy

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

— George Woodcock

“If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.”

— Victoria Schwab

Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my…

— William Shakespeare

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

— Coventry Patmore

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

— Thomas Browne

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

— Oscar Wilde

“My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand The grandchild to her blood. But, out,…

— William Shakespeare

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

— William Shakespeare

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to…

— William Shakespeare