Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.

Charles Spurgeon

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

Ang Lee

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Diane Wakoski

... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ...

Catherine Drinker Bowen

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Cary Grant

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Jane Austen

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Janis Joplin

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Agnes Repplier

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Charles Wagner

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Brian Weiss

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Brian Eno

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

David Allen

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

Jared Diamond

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Alan Watts

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

C. S. Lewis

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

Agnes Repplier

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Akshay Kumar

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Charles Lamb

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste.

Bill Murray

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Dick Van Dyke

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.