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1205 Critic Quotes

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Color Conviction Experience Faith
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Common Does Genius Grows
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Day Done Every Get
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Light is the symbol of truth.
Light Of Symbol Truth
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Character Conscientious Duty Energetic
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Against Always Been Democracy
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Him Make Man Plan
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Deeper Easier Get Ocean
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Appeal Been Fail Known
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Blessed Cannot Nothing Persuaded
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Forever Scaffold Throne Truth
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

After Agreed Different Everybody
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Folks Hate Never Understand
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Bends Breaks Kinds Two
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Defect Only Outgrow Soon
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Agree Both Distrust Issue
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Anew Born Day Each
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom Genius Knows Law
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Eye Of Notebook Poet
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Great Great Man Made Make
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Crowning Endurance Great Hearts
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Dealing Great Great Things Himself
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy Every Every Man Form
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The disappearance of Charles Taylor from Nigerian soil is a humiliating disgrace to Nigeria. Obasanjo must explain why this happened.

Disappearance Charles Taylor Nigerian Obasanjo
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There is nothing new in the speech. It is the same old wine in new bottles. It's a disappointing statement. In fact it is a disastrous speech.

Speech Old wine New bottle Disappointing
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I'm not surprised at this result, I'm saddened, not surprised. This government will do anything to keep its power by deceiving the people.

Saddened Not surprised Government Power
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This is incredible. This is fantastic. This gives us hope that something good will begin to happen soon.

Incredible Fantastic Something good Hope
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writer Someone Writing More difficult
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Love Reason Stronger than Death
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Books Ourselves Strangely enough Great pleasure
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Tolerance Crime Applied Evil
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Laughter Sunbeam The soul
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War Cowardly escape Problems Peace
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Who loves The more Inferior Must suffer
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There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

So many Different kind Stupidity Cleverness
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Art Funnel Spirit Poured
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Are carnal Love Death Terror
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Harmful truth Better than Useful lie
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Interest Disease Death Expression
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting

Fear Called meticulous Inclining Exhaustive
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Only love Not reason Kind thoughts
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

What good Politics be Give everyone Opportunity
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions Survive No chance Fight
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Life Goodness Irrespective Course
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Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Death Dignifies Our sufferings Eyes
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Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Myth Foundation Life Timeless pattern
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Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge

Man loves Honors Not able Judge him
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Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.

Whoever Unable to Stand up His blood
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How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?

Free myself Sexuality Eat nothing Rice
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To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Find peace Faultless Desire Seeks excellence
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