"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."

People, Reason

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

People, Kings

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Goodness

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

People, Trouble, Want

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

People, Pleasure, Promises

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Books, Gifts

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Entertainment, Struggle, Support

Explore more quotes by James Russell Lowell

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

Action, Man, World

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

Progress, Authority, Security

"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."

Age, Youth

"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."

Man, Mind

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

Character, Being, Sincerity

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

Thought, Thoughts, Mind

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

Action, World

12

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Explore more quotes by James Russell Lowell

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon."

"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us."

"Light is the symbol of truth."

"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."