Stella Benson Quotes

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

Stella Benson

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• Misunderstood
• Delicious

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Something
  • More
  • Delicious

• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sure
  • Excellent
  • Anybody

• It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Lies
  • Taste
  • Mediocrity

• Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Excellent

• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Love
  • Should
  • Try

• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Person
  • Rule
  • Conscience

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Conscience
  • Self-Esteem

• My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Wife
  • Wants
  • Delicious

• To be great is to be misunderstood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Misunderstood

• I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Mother
  • Delicious
  • Eggplant

• May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Fine

• Home's the most excellent place of all.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Home
  • Excellent

• Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Law
  • Moral

• Fate" Eve said with a sigh "I'm not sure fate had to burn up your car to get the point across," Shane said, buckling his own seatbelt. "No, not that. The hearse. I'm going to name it Fate." Shane stared at Eve for a long, long few seconds, then slowly shook his head. "Have you considered medication, or-" She flipped him off. "Ah. Back to normal. Excellent.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Long
  • She

• Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

  

  A. Y. Jackson
  • Business
  • Artist
  • Excellent

• Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Opportunities
  • Dictionary

• Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

  

  William Blake
  • World
  • Christian
  • Building

• Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.

  

  David Graham Phillips
  • American
  • Army
  • Interests

• A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Teach

• Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Conscience
  • Excellent
  • Misunderstood