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)