Chiefly Quotes

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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.

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.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

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

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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

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?

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

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.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

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.

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