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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