Quotations
Names:
Edward Second Baron Thurlow
Quotes:
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
View quotes by Judy Garland
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
View quotes by Doris Lessing
No work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
View quotes by Gerald Finzi
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
View quotes by Cyril Connolly
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
View quotes by Stan Barstow
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
View quotes by B C Forbes
The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
View quotes by Norman Tebbit
First witch: When shall we three meet again,
Second witch: In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third witch: That will be ere the set of sun.
First witch: Where the place?
Second witch: Upon the heath.
Third witch: There to meet with Macbeth.
First witch: I come, Greymalkin!
Second witch: Paddock calls.
Third witch: Anon!
All: Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
(Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1)
View quotes by William Shakespeare
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
View quotes by Luis Walter Alvarez
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
View quotes by Owen Meredith
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
View quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
"He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then there was Ben - he was my first dry hump."
View quotes by Charlize Theron
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson
I am absolutely delighted to have come second. Who cares about winning when you can be second? I love being runner-up.
View quotes by Tom Weiskopf
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
View quotes by Leigh Hunt
There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.
View quotes by Dominic Allen
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it [on composing and the minor second interval]
View quotes by Morton Feldman
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
View quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald
'The problem, with the Conservative Party is that they are actually going backwards. They have now skipped a generation. At this rate the next leader will have to be exhumed' - after Michael Howard was made leader
View quotes by Rory Bremner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
View quotes by William Faulkner
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