(9 quotes found)
“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“The top pieces - Steichen and Stieglitz - they're among the most important pictures and among the rarest prints that there are.”
Stephen Perloff
“. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.”
Marie de Sevigne
“Be patient - there's the rarest thing on Wall Street.”
Jeff Saut
“I believe there are three kinds of people. Most can hear. Some can't. The rarest kind listen.”
Azmath Pasha
“One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .”
Rebecca Harding Davis
“Fishing can take you to some of our most beautiful places and give you privileged close-ups of our rarest and most interesting wildlife. It?s also a great introduction to the environment and wildlife for inner city people.”
Dafydd Evans