Chiefly Quotes

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.