Quotations
Quotes:
Here lies a most beautiful lady,
Light of step and heart was she;
I think she was the most beautiful lady
That ever was in the West Country.
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare - rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?
('Epitaph', 1912)
View quotes by Walter De La Mare
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
View quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet
I think it's really one of the rare ones where there was no match at all. I was just off, and she was all over me. [losing to Mauresmo]
View quotes by Patty Schnyder
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
View quotes by Coco Chanel
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
View quotes by Benedict Spinoza
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one
View quotes by Ursula Le Guin
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
View quotes by Juvenal
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
View quotes by Jean Anouilh
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
View quotes by Arnold Palmer
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.
View quotes by Sir Anthony Eden
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
View quotes by Charles Lamb
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
View quotes by Ed Cunningham
I am sometimes lost for words and in those rare occasions life seems even the more precious.
View quotes by Christopher Guest
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare,
The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.
View quotes by James Hogg
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
View quotes by Byron J Langenfeld
And there's one rare strange virtue in their speeches,
The secret of their mastery - they are short.
View quotes by Fitz-Greene Halleck
Sunderland are making a rare soiree into Wolves territory here, extraordinary!
View quotes by Simon Crabtree
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
View quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it (A Summer Bird-Cage)
View quotes by Margaret Drabble
