"You need more fact in the dangerous art……" — William Bolitho
"You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action."
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11 Quotes by William Bolitho
William Bolitho has 11 quotes on this site.
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Adventure must start with running away from home.
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Dare, will, keep silence.
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It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he…
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The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really…
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A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains…
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Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social
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The mere idea of marriage, asa strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will…
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The mere idea of marriage, asa strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will…
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The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is…
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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