Quotations Page 'T'
Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Tact comes as much from goodness of heart as from fineness of taste.
- Endymion -
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It always seems to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent like carrier-pgeon.
- George Eliot -
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To talk without effort is, after all the great charm of talking.
- J.C. Hore -
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his own purse.
- J.S. Mill -
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Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
- Bavee -
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Taxes are the sinews of the state.
- Cicero -
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
- Amiel -
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
- Johnson -
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More potent than the spoken words in a pure thought.
- M. Gandhi, Harijan -
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It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
- Shakespeare -
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Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
- Plato -
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
- Pope -
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I waste time and now doth time waste me.
- Shakespeare -
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Error tolarates, truth condemns.
- Caballero -
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If you want to see how selfish people are, and how skindeep fashionable politeness is, take a voyage.
- G.B. Shaw, Irrational Knot -
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It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
- Shakespeare -
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Treason pleases, but not the traitor.
- Cervantes -
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There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.
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- Spurgeon -
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