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)

“I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)