Greatest

Famous quotes containing the word greatest:

“A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

“The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)