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  • He has all the qualities that go to the making of a leader of the Conservative Party. He is not stupid, but he is very dull. He is not eloquent, but he talks well. He is not honest, politically, but he is most evangelical.He has a Beckett little money, but not much. He always conforms to the party policy.

    -Baron
      Commenting on Sir Samuel Hoare's appointment as Foreign Secretary.

  • We must however acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities†still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

    - Charles Robert Darwin
    The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, ch.21.

  • Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.

    - Denis Diderot
    ^81 Pense  es de  tache e s sur la peinture.

  • Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place of Christendom.

    -Elizabeth I
      Speech to a parliamentary delegation, 5 Nov. Quoted in Christopher Haigh Elizabeth I (1988).

  • Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
    ^2  In The Rambler.

  • Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy. It is, I suppose, one of their godlike qualities.

    - H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
    'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

  • Not least among the qualities ina great King is a capacity to permit his Ministers to serve him.

    -Cardinal Richelieu
      Testament Politique.

  • There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Tom Broadbent. John Bull's Other Island, act 4.

  • Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

    - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
      Charles Surface.The School for Scandal, act 3, sc.3.

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