Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, one’s hopes or one’s fears.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

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

    Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable purity.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)