Quotes About Distinction

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions... and comparisons.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Some men are more perfect than others.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.