Home / Topics / Greater Quotes

Greater Quotes

Browse 5772 quotes about Greater.

Greater Quotes

“He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.”

Littles Persons Feelings Attention Knowing Greater Objects Creatures Fellows Deny Invention Superiors Esteem Preference Ceremony Endeavour Uneasy Uneasy Feelings

Author:Charles Lamb

“none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.”

World Whole Greater Whole World Esteem Admiration Virtuous Entitled Courtesy Tribute

Book:The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources

Source: The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources

“people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.”

“We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.”

Soul Self Healing Greater Self Esteem Glory Increase Esteem Glory Of God Splendor Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:John Piper

“I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader.”

Book Problem Certain Hate Literature Fiction Greater Effects Design Identity Reader I Hate Privilege Esteem Genre Conventions Conform Great Work Procedures Typefaces

Author:Michael Chabon

“The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.”

Should Mind Courses Opportunity Pleasure Greater Our Lives Share Ought Drinking Refuse Esteem Occasions Our Time Dedicated

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays