Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. Charles Buxton

Quotes November 23, 2008

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Critics and Criticism
Quotations by Charles Buxton

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. Sir Walter Scott

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.DeceitQuotations by Sir Walter Scott

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.WasteQuotations by Orison …

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.DiscretionQuotations by Junius

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.MarriageQuotations …

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson’s damn.SwearingQuotations by Thomas Hardy

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.EqualityQuotations by George Orwell

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.Poetry and PoetsQuotations by Henry David Thoreau

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.Teachers and TeachingQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.HonestyQuotations by William Shakespeare

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.FamilyQuotations by Publius Cornelius Tacitus