Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

Quote by Kenneth Clark

Topics: Greed Quotes, Principles Quotes

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It...

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic...

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic...

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out...

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying...

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying...

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American middle class.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American middle class.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism is the humour of hatred.

Cynicism is the humour of hatred.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value...

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that...

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that...

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Practice justice, mercy and humility rather than cynicism, arrogance & judgmentalism.

Practice justice, mercy and humility rather than cynicism, arrogance & judgmentalism.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out...

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out...

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come...

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come...