Famous quotes containing the word generous:
“Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don’t try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear people. I have been hearing from the West and the East, and the South seems to be the only section which approves of me at all, and that comes from merely a generous impulse, for even that section would deny me its votes.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.”
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)