quality quotes

Cricket, like the novel, isgreat when it presents men in the round, when it shows the salty quality of human nature.

-Aristotle
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

I have been young, and now am not too old; And I have seen the righteous forsaken, His health, his honour and his quality taken. This is not what we were formerly told.

- Edmund Charles Blunden
  'Report On Experience'.

Rage isthe only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

-Jimmy Breslin
  In The Times, 9 May.

You can't fake qualityany more thanyou can fake a good meal.

-William S(eward) Burroughs
  The Western Lands, ch.2.

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

- Sir Neville Cardus
A Fourth Innings with Cardus.

The irregularand intimate qualityof things made entirely by the human hand.

-Willa Sibert Cather
  Death Comes to the Archbishop, bk.1, ch.3.

   Thereisnothing moreunbecoming a manofquality than to laugh;Jesu,'tissuchavulgarexpressionofthepassion!

-William Congreve
  Lord Froth to Brisk. The Double Dealer, act1, sc.4.

It isclosing time inthegardens oftheWest and fromnow on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

- Cyril Vernon Connolly
  Horizon, no.120^1, Dec1949^  Jan1950 (double issue, the final issue of the journal).

The historian must have a third quality as well: some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  Abinger Harvest,'Captain Edward Gibbon'.

  The male quality is the creative gift.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Quoted in C C  Abbott (ed) Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

I yearned to trespass on Quality Street.

-Jesse Lasky
On his desire to produce better films. Quoted in the NewYorker, 21 Mar1994.

'Good', then, if we mean by it that quality which we assert to belong to a thing, when we say that the thing is good, is incapable of any definition, in the most important sense of the word.

- G(eorge) E(dward) Moore
  Principia Ethica, ch.1.

Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature, like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives; the fixed resolve not to quit, an act of renunciation that must be made not once but many times by the power of the will.

- Richard John McMoranWilson, 2nd Baron Moran
  The Anatomy of Courage.

Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake.

-Walter Pater
  'Conclusion' in Studies in the History of the Renaissance.

Un sourire est souvent l'essentiel. On est paye   par un sourire. On est re  compense   par un sourire.On est anime par un sourire. Et la qualite   d'un sourire peut faire que l'on meure. A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile.One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupe  ry
  Lettre a'   un otage.

The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture† Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.

- Steven Shapin
  A Social History ofTruth.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimityand greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

- Harriet (Elizabeth) ne  e Beecher Stowe
  'The Cathedral', in the Atlantic Monthly, Dec.

Johnson's aesthetic judgements are almost invariably subtle, or solid, or bold; they have always some good quality to recommend themexcept one: theyare never right.

- (Giles) Lytton Strachey
  On SamuelJohnson. Books and Characters,'Lives of the Poets'.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy†why you itch all over in upward of a thousand places.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.2.