- Quotes by James Graham
“I’ll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword”. - Quotes by William Ewart Gladstone
“He is the purest figure in history”. - Quotes by Thomas Fuller
“The great and the little have need of one another”. - Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
“It is a grand mistake of think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous”. - Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
“We shouldn’t touch our idols: the gift comes off on our hands”. - Quotes by Henry Fielding
“Greatness consists in bringing allmanner of mischief on mankind, and goodness in removing it from them”.
- Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. To be great is to be misunderstood. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”. - Quotes by John Dryden
“His grandeur he derived from from Heaven alone, For he was great, ere fortune made him so. How can the less the greater comprehend? Or finite reason reach Infinity? [On Shakespeare] He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some occasion is presented to him”.
Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Fame And Greatness, Gustave Flaubert, Henry Fielding, James Graham, John Dryden, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Fuller, William Ewart Gladstone
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