39 Quotes by Benjamin Jowett

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

You’ve got to be success minded. You’ve got to feel that things are coming your way when you’re out selling; otherwise, you won’t be able to sell anything.

Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard – both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.