Quotes with grander

  • I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

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  • George Orwell Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Richard Dawkins I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Victor Hugo Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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