Qualities

Famous quotes containing the word qualities:

    But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.
    Walter Pater (1839–1894)

    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)

    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)