Best chance & taste Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

Ifs Needs Should Book America Given Chance Mystery Taste Succeed Should Have Sells Ashamed Trash

Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

“What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.”

Source: The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford

“The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.”

Ifs Men Looks Littles Lying Girl Chance Rich Taste Husband Good Man Rich Man

Book:The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

“I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.”

Needs Stories Chance Morning Sea Taste Mouths Rivers Fishes Newspapers Boat Lakes Fishing Every Morning Fisherman

Author:Ed Zern

“Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!”

Trying Grows Chance Taste Swear Take A Chance

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.”

Ifs Men Character Faces Heaven Chance Habit Taste Elements

Book:HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

“If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public.”

Ifs Thinking Way Might Care Certain Winning Loses Imagination Chance Known Stage Taste Competition Individuality Conform Good Way

Author:George Li

“We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.”

May Stills Hate Turns Chance Identity Kings Taste Slave

Book:Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

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