Eminence Quotes
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Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.
— Baltasar Gracian
He held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
— George Eliot
I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.
— Mary E. Pearson
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
— Edmund Burke
One of the great advantages of
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst
Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence ...
— Elijah Muhammad
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
— George Bernard Shaw
I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.
— Emma Donoghue
The building of Kuwait and her Eminence, it's defense and protection, is primarily a responsibility by her people and the efforts of her children
— Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.
— Cargill Gilston Knott
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
— Jean De La Bruyere
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
— A. Scott Berg
The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.
— William Burton Pope
The language of love is unspoken. It is a feeling, an acknowledgment, and acceptance of not only our human frailties, but our divine eminence.
— Charles F. Glassman
Hence a 'bishop' who has set his heart on a position of eminence rather than an opportunity for service should realize that he is no bishop. So
— Augustine Of Hippo
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
— Franz Grillparzer
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
— Seneca The Younger
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
— Samuel Johnson
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
— William Gilmore Simms
It stands on a slight eminence
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The mind which relate clover with eminence, why forget to relate limitations with human ambitions.
— M.H. Rakib
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
— George Bernard Shaw
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
— Katharine Anthony
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
— William McKinley
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.
— Kedar Joshi
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
— Ernest Bramah
Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
— Nicolas Chamfort