Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Krist Novoselic

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success.

Jim Jordan

Here's the final word from a giant of American jurisprudence on the methods, motives and ethics of Ken Starr.

Arthur Clough

Good are the Ethics, I wis; good absolute, not for me, though; / Good, too, Logic, of course; in itself, but not in fine weather.

Ron Beck

His work with labor relations, and his values and ethics of leadership are exceptional.

Edwin Eisendrath

He can't mention ethics because he has failed to keep his promises.

Bill Swisher

I can learn about a client's ethics by watching how he handles shooting over a limit or not.

Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

William Shakespeare

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Alain Badiou

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Baroness Orczy

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.