Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Tom Browning

With the players we lost, we were hoping we'd be happy to be able to put together a formidable defense,

Barton Gellman

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

Alan Cropsey

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.

Steve Perkins

He had better velocity than he's had and he had good location. Those guys are formidable hitters, and we knew that.

Joseph Smith

I think we're in good shape. Harbor's always a formidable opponent. We'll have to be ready to play.

Neil Stern

I think their strategy is to be as ubiquitous as Walgreen's. They're a very good operator, a formidable rival to Walgreen's.

Craig Brewster

Matching their strength will be a priority. Regardless of who is picked, they will be a formidable side.

Jerry Sanders

Were winning the fight, but they are a very formidable competitor,

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Robert Falcon Scott

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Roger B. Taney

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

Lytton Strachey

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Mahatma Gandhi

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.