Famous quotes containing the word proceed:
“The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)