Highest

Famous quotes containing the word highest:

“Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is—”Let there be truth between us two forevermore.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)