Quotations Page 'C'
The good critic is he who narrates the adventure of his soul among masterpieces.
- Anatole France, La Vie Litteraire -
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Performance of one's duty should be independent of public opinion.
- M.Gandhi -
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Under his standard shall thou conquer.
- Emperor Constantine, Mottoassumed by him -
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Of all beast the man beast is the worst;To others and himself the cruellest foe.
- R.Bexter, Hypocricy -
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I must be cruel, only to be kind.
- Shakespeare, Hamlets -
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Cruelity and fear shake hands together.
- Balzac -
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Culture is "to know the best that has been said and thought in the world".
- Mathew Arnold, Literature and Dogma -
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- M.Gandhi, Harijan -
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Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.
- M.Gandhi, Young India -
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The wimpled, shining, purblind wayward by,This senior-junior, giant dwarf, Dan cupid.
- John Lyly, Alexander and Compaspe -
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The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.
- Gray, Flegy written in a Country churchyard -
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I loathe that low vice, curiosity.
- Byron -
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Born in an age more curious than devout.
- Young, Night Thoughts -
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I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
- Sir Thomas Malory, Morted arthur -
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Curses, not loud but deep.
- Shakespeare -
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Custom the world's great idol, we adore.
- J.Pomfret, Reason -
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Custom doth make dotards of us all.
- Carlyle -
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Custom is often only the antiquity of error.
- Cyprian -
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A man who knows the price of everything and the value or nothing.
- Osar Wilde, Lady Windermere's oan -
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
- George Meredith, Egoists -
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