Quality Quotes

“If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.”

“Good wine needs no bush.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.”

“People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”

“Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.”

“Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.”

“There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.”

“You cannot make a cheap palace.”

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”

“Nothing can be preserved that is not good.”

“The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.”

“There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.”

“If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.”

“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”

“It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.”

“The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.”

“It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.”

“My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.”

“Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.”

“Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.”

“The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.”

“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”

“All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.”

“I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.”