Qualities

Famous quotes containing the word qualities:

“Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge—criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment—three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)