The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality..

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor..

Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is mo….

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought ….

It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that mak….

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities o….

She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her..

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality c….

Habits are qualities of the soul..

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape..

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things..

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggest….

I think his deepest quality is empathy..

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible..

What we hear is the quality of our listening..

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general..

Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming….

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting alon….

The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number….

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality..

There is a learning quality in all of our shows..