Qualities

Famous quotes containing the word qualities:

“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)

“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)

“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)