5,320 Quotes About Real

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?