278 Quotes About Standards

Words have ruined the standard beauty and Numbers have exaggerated the weight of wealth.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

Some men’s type is women who have a vagina.

Perfection is not given to any man. But an aspiration to perfection—to the highest possible standards in every aspect of life—is possible.

In our society, it appears that rules give us a more specific idea of the things that we want to break so that we can break them more efficiently.

Ethics might be optional, but the consequences are not.