Chiefly Quotes

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

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

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

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

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

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

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

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?

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

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

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

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.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

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.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

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.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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

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.