Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Jonson

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Ben Jonson

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Kurt Eichenwald

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

Henry Ward Beecher

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all

William Shakespeare

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

A. J. McLean

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

Zoe Kravitz

In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

Ayn Rand

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

William Wordsworth

O dearest, dearest boy! my heartFor better lore would seldom yearn,Could I but teach the hundredth partOf what from thee I learn.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Henry Martyn

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

William Cowper

The dearest idol I have known, Whatever that idol be, Help me to tear it from thy throne , And worship only thee.

Deborah Franklin

She is the sweetest, dearest dog. This would be a good dog for children.

Zubin Mehta

I pay my tributes to my dearest friend and the greatest musician of India Ravi Shanker. It has been a long time since we made music together. I will never forget the last time we worked together.

George Hill

Annie, dearest friend: I am not long for this world and I wish to thank you for your kindness ere I go

Frank Gifford

As we got older, I told him, 'No longer can I say you're a great father figure. You're my friend, and the dearest one I ever had.' He was extraordinary.

Gerard Hopkins

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things . . . ,

Isabella Rossellini

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was 20. I am not only Italian, I am partly Swedish. When my parents divorced, I was three years old and went to live in Paris... when I am offered a film in Europe, I come with great enthusiasm!

Bible Bible

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.

Andreas Katsulas

So I think the fans will be totally interested in the new developments and delighted that the old developments are still there and that they can still see some of the old characters maybe reappear.

Thomas Cole

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

Bob Edwards

Murrow would be delighted that there are 24-hour news channels, but disappointed that during prime time all that they would be doing are these shout shows and Larry King instead of doing the news,

Patrick Vieira

Naturally, I'm delighted to have scored but the most important thing was that we won, ... We played the perfect match, controlling the result from start to finish.

Eddie Vedder

Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

Kate Klise

The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

Catherynne M. Valente

I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I don't read it for legal reasons, but I'm thrilled to know it's there. Someone cared. Someone loved it enough to spend their free time writing about it for free.

Mike Rathgeber

I am incredibly proud of this team. This is one of the most gratifying years I've had. Not one of the most successful, but one of the most gratifying.

Bill Self

For us to have the worst league start since (1983) and then go 13-3 is probably more gratifying than if we had started out 10-0.

Barry Bonds

Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

Bob Bowlsby

This will be one of the most gratifying professional experiences you will ever have.

Bob Hill

(Berlin) was the most gratifying tour of the whole thing.

Jim McKelvey

I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.

Elias Hicks

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

Keith Richard

Who is this gratifying and where were the Africans?

Auberon Waugh

We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of the journalist pigs evoked by Spitting Image puppets.

Martin Cohen

must disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

Frederick W. Smith

I was so despondent, wondering what I am going to do, and then the minister herself called.

Pope John

She wants to test herself and she likes the challenge.

Tim Montgomery

She wants to go out and race to prove herself and that's going to be tough.

Leslie Howle

She was working on a new novel, and she always had herself on several things at once.

Guru Singh

She shall meet Him without delay, if she rids herself of duality.

Robert Martinez

She can put a lot of pressure on herself and push herself too hard. I told her she needs to relax sometimes or she might be tired before the season starts. You have to hold her back sometimes.

Doreen Marchione

She has since remarried and she's volunteering for a domestic-violence shelter herself now.

Diane Abbott

She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself very worthy of this place in history and will serve as an inspiration for women the world over.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Billy Joel

She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.

Gary Scelzi

I have chills. I've been wound up all week.

Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Demi Moore

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Martin Meehan

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Dennis Quaid

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

Erwin McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Paul Dergarabedian

Nothing salves the wound of controversy like money.

Sherman Alexie

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.