Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill

I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Mot...

Cloud Atlas

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Or, Severall Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight: Wherein Especially Is Contained a Compleat Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, ...

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Or, Severall Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight: Wherein Especially Is Contained a Compleat Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, ...

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He k...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Klaatu: [after reading the Gettysburg Address at the Lincoln Memorial] Those are great words. Klaatu: [turns to look at the statue of Lincoln] He must have been a great man. Bobby Benson: Well sure. Klaatu: [walking out of the memorial, then turning ...

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Man in a Punt: Great sport, this! Woman in a Punt: What? Man in a Punt: I said, it's great sport, this punting! [Their punt passes another one beached behind some reeds, where James and Sylvia are making out] James Bond: I couldn't agree with him mor...

From Russia with Love

Ham Porter: [mimicking Babe Ruth with a cigar in his mouth; can't understand him] Check this out. I'm the Great Bambino. Sandlot Kids: What? Ham Porter: [still can't understand him] I'm the Great Bambino! Sandlot Kids: What? Ham Porter: [takes cigar ...

The Sandlot

I can't get her pregnant! I'm just thirteen. You have to be a man to get a girl pregnant.

Sebastian the Great

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Keith Richards

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

John Woolman

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Tony Stark: [pats someone on the back] Looking great, Hef. [the man turns around, and it's actually Stan Lee]

Iron Man

No man is so great as mankind.

Theodore Parker

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls ...

No Man Is an Island

Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us cha...

Fight Club

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Chanakya

No man was ever great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune