Persons Quotes

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.