Distinction Quotes

“Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.”

“A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.”

“There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.”

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”

“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.”

“It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.”

“Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.”

“The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.”

“. . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.”

“Knowledge is not intelligence.”

“Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.”