Quotes About Opinion

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

No one knows, at sight a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me: Don't kick against the pricks, Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your game And died, there's nothing in it.

Not a single opinion poll this week! Never mind! We'll try to guess our own intentions by ourselves...

The press does not speak the voice of the nation. It does not even speak the voice of those who write for it.

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Why do you write? Because I want to persuade everybody to agree with me about everything, for their own good.

Come credeva alla iettatura, era incrollabile nell'opinione che il colera fosse un malefizio, un espediente di governo inteso a sfollare le popolazioni, a incutere un salutare timore nei superstiti. Dinanzi allo zio duca, sapendolo dell'opinione contraria, più «progressista», cioè che la peste venisse per correnti atmosferiche, taceva prudentemente; ma con Fersa si sbottonava, derideva le quarantene e tutti gli altri amminnicoli fatti per darla a bere ai gonzi.

We shall not allow ourselves to repeat the often-voiced opinion that "civilizations are mortal." Mortal perhaps are their ephemeral blooms, the intricate and short-lived creations of an age, their economic triumphs and their social trials, in the short term. But their foundations remain. They are not indestructible, but they are many times more solid than one might imagine.

Ninguna cosa es más lexos de verdad que la vulgar opinión. Nunca alegre viuirás, si por voluntad de muchos te riges. Porque estas son conclusiones verdaderas, que qualquier cosa, que el vulgo piensa, es vanidad; lo que fabla, falsedad; lo que reprueua es bondad; lo que aprueua, maldad.

Ninguna cosa es más lejos de la verdad que la vulgar opinión. Nunca alegre vivirás, si por voluntad de muchos te riges. Porque éstas son conclusiones verdaderas, que cualquier cosa que el vulgo piensas, es vanidad; lo que habla, falsedad; lo que reprueba es bondad; lo que aprueba, maldad.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Don't judge me as what people say, they may all be wrong, do you own judgement.

A fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the Good Soldier is the finest novel in the English language!" whereupon my friend John Rodker, who has always had a properly tempered admiration for my work, remarked in his clear, slow drawl: "Ah, yes. It is, but you have left out a word. It is the finest French novel in the English language!"

A work that undertakes the refutation of vulgar prejudices, cannot have so high an aim. It aspires only to clear the way for the steps of Truth; to prepare the minds of men to receive her; to rectify public opinion, and to snatch from unworthy hands dangerous weapons they misuse.

no podía dejar de pensar en aquella frase de Adolf Hitler: «Si desea la simpatía de las masas, tiene que decirles las cosas más estúpidas y crudas.» Ese desprecio,

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

Anyone can be a film critic. The apprentice supposedly need not possess a tenth of the knowledge that would be demanded of a critic of literature, music or painting. A director must live with the fact that his work will be called to judgment by someone who has never seen a film of Murnau's.

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?