15 Quotes by Francis Jeffrey

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.