Qualities

Famous quotes containing the word qualities:

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

    I ... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are qualities that characterize the “establishment” which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.
    Elizabeth Gould Davis (b. 1910)