Quotes with truth-and-a-half

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 25898.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Julie Burchill A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • H. Stanley Judd A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
    H. Stanley Judd
    American author
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Baruch Spinoza A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Betsey Johnson A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Pindar A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Francis Bacon A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alva Myrdal A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • William Styron A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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  • Walt Whitman A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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