(394 quotes found)
“Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts; that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm. . . . Sounds like . . . every commercial on television, doesn't it?”
Bill Hicks
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty”
Coco Chanel
“To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.”
“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman”
George Santayana
“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Alexander Pope
“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.”
Charlotte Bronte
