9 Quotes by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.