Edmund Morris Quotes
Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues.
Edmund Morris
Quotes to Explore
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Philip James Bailey
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Virtues cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.
Aristotle
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
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Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
Sarah Kay
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where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
Ernest Hemingway
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From my limited and immature child’s point of view, Heaven was therefore populated almost exclusively by white people who lived in the United States of America, along with the original disciples of Jesus, an uncalculated number of genuine Christians who had lived throughout the ages, and many but not all of those mentioned in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, which I first read at the age of eight when I found it on my parents’ book shelf.
Andrew Himes
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The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.
John Motson
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Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues.
Edmund Morris
