Mediocrity Quotations | Page 3

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Half talent is no talent.

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.