Greatest

Famous quotes containing the word greatest:

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“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)