37 Chiefly Quotes for You to Enjoy

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. Margaret Oliphant

Life Art Quality Fate Long Virtue Has-Been Morals Excellent Long Life Industry Been Chiefly Little Production Satisfactory Credited

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. Marilyn Monroe

Good Husbands Betraying Wives Chiefly Lovers

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature Pang Our Alike Torture Marvelous Never He Merciful Know However Provision Chiefly Intensity Endures After Should Present

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. Patrick White

Age Writing Reading Nine Asthma Running About Poetry Induced Chiefly Efforts Literary Early Started Started Reading Plays

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought. Robert Burns

Political Thought Men Seen Few Manners Willing Moral Ability Classes Some Admit Poetical Writers Am Very Chiefly Any May Common Different Either Which Acquainted Mankind Originality Whom Among Assist

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. Robert Quillen

Genius Mind Sides Consists Ability Steadily Give Attention Till Subject Chiefly Accurately Anything Which Keeps

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe. Rosemary Mahoney

Life Myself Me Moving Forward Fear Light Keep Moving Forward Mind Keep Moving Starve Danger Visual Would Find See Colors Shapes Had Safe Chiefly Spaces Information Moving Might Forward Keep Compel

If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries. Seamus Heaney

You People Sense Ghostly Dimension Entering London Exchange Almost Underground Still Go Very Train Chiefly Quiet Anywhere Many

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds. William Bartram

Strength Great Three First Young Other High Shall He Name Chiefly Grey Which Flight Species Largest Eagle

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