1877 · Skopia

Showing 27 quotes from 1877

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 9.2

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

1877

★ 6.9

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

1877

★ 6.0

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 5.6

Speech · Political speech

It is the glory of each generation to make its own precedents.

1877

★ 5.4

It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.

1877

★ 5.3

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Edward FitzGerald

1877

★ 5.2

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

1877

★ 4.5

The eternal error men make in imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 4.0

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 4.0

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee · 1877

★ 3.7

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Pillars of Society · 1877

★ 3.6

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1877

★ 3.6

I am tired of fighting... I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

1877

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

It is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

1877

★ 3.5

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

1877

★ 3.5

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone about him.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.3

Scientific literature

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

1877

★ 2.0

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The History of Freedom in Antiquity · 1877

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment—that conflicting claims to the Presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted, and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes · 1877

★ 1.9

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

1877

★ 1.9

Becoming a father isn't difficult, But it's very difficult to be a father.

1877

★ 1.9

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.

1877

★ 1.8

Truly, I think I should go mad if it weren't for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1877

★ 1.2