#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.”

“If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.”

“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”

“The extraordinary business does not require good management.”

“The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!”

“I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.”

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

“We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.”

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”

“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”

“A small number of choice books are sufficient.”

“Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.”

“Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.”

“Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.”

“When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.”

“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”

“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”

“If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.”

“Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.”

“Just make sure you never do less than your best”

“Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.”

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.”

“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

“Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you”

“Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”

“Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.”