Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 4622.

  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Betty Friedan It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Tom Stoppard It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir William Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • W. Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
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  • Anne Brontë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
    Virginibus Puerisque
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Cecil Parkinson It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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  • Mark Twain It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is better to be faithful than famous.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Machiavelli It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Winston Churchill It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • André Gide It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Mae West It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Tom Stoppard It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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