Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

“A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)