Quotes with surest

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  • Pauline Kael One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
    Pauline Kael
    American film critic (0 - 2001)
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  • Mark Twain Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Demosthenes The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Thomas Wolfe The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Germaine Greer The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Samuel M. Shoemaker The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.
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  • James Russell Lowell The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The surest sign of age is loneliness.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Gloria Steinem The surest way to be alone is to get married.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Maurice Switzer The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Douglas Jerrold The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Robert Benchley The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Napoleon The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord Jeffrey The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
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