#superiority

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#men #strength-of-character #superiority #women #equality

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. ↗

— Paul Harris

#any #been #comes #fall #history

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compliment #him #his #kind #lie

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#arises #being #branch #dictates #higher

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible. ↗

— Walter Lang

#bible #christ #come #curse #essentially

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #beliefs #could #describe #exercise

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#between #difference #fairly #good #infinite

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#depends #experiences #mind #organised #over

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

#eternal #fame #fleeting #fragile #glorious