#qualities

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#consequence #crimes #her #means #most

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#attributed #female #found #indians #many

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#any #done #female #gender #increase

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#brother #did #feet #i #i remember

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#beautiful #been #behind #birth #decay

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#display #fellow #fellow creatures #like #love

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#asked #first #i #imagination #necessary

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 or advantages. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#after #basis #chose #deliberations #endless

Love is a quality, not a quantity. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#qualities-of-life #quality #life

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#aware #bad #being #confess #fear