#great

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #chance #dignitaries #find #formerly

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#century #defects #english #great #index

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#beautiful person #best #best man #cleverest #competition

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#chronicle #family #great #jews

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#assimilation #contact #fiction #genius #great

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. ↗

— David Hockney

#great #i #open #open spaces #spaces

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#brand #campbell #chocolate #common #common sense

I've always had great faith in people. ↗

— Wayne Newton

#faith #great #great faith #had #i

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ↗

— George Herbert

#hath #learning #man #memory #rock

There is great force hidden in a gentle command. ↗

— George Herbert

#force #gentle #great #hidden