Chiefly Quotes

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

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.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

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.

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

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.

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

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

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.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.