Quotes with ill-fortune

Quotes 161 till 180 of 329.

  • Lord Chesterfield In my mind, there is no, thing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Boris Pasternak In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Virginia Woolf Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Anatole France Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Aeschylus It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • John Dryden It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Francesco Petrarca It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • Edmund Spenser It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
    Edmund Spenser
    English poet (1552 - 1599)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne It is we that are blind, not fortune.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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