Top 100 Cardinal Quotes
#1. Well, Monsieur Laporte placed her near her Majesty in order that our poor queen might at least have someone in whom she could place confidence, abandoned as she is by the king, watched as she is by the cardinal, betrayed as she is by everybody." "Ah, ah!
Alexandre Dumas
#2. Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
Cardinal Richelieu
#3. Henry glares at him. "I will say this for you. You stick by your man." "I have never had anything from the cardinal other than kindness. Why would I not?
Hilary Mantel
#4. To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead.
Hilary Mantel
#5. You do this, perhaps, with a good intention,' said the Cardinal, 'but, in my opinion, it were wiser in you, and perhaps better for you, not to engage in so ridiculous a contest with a Fool.'
Thomas More
#6. Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Cardinal Richelieu
#7. My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.
Nana Awere Damoah
#8. It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
Larry Niven
#9. National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.
John Adams
#11. Commend me to the cardinal,' said Milady. 'Commend me to Satan,' replied Rochefort.
Alexandre Dumas
#12. When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.
Justin Villanueva
#13. In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all ...
Robert De Niro
#14. The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
Edith Head
#15. In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
George Bernard Shaw
#16. No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez
Robert Harris
#17. Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she'd known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she'd crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her.
Nalini Singh
#18. One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can't control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, To hang out with Wesley.
Victoria Schwab
#19. Be quiet as a Hebi, a snake and quick as a Kitsune, a fox, the two cardinal rules of being a paparazzi.
Vann Chow
#21. To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.
Theodore Roosevelt
#22. ... the cardinal labor of composition, which is excision ...
Virginia Woolf
#23. A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.
Malcolm Knowles
#25. One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
Paul Theroux
#26. If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Bill Walsh
#27. My sons remember me most as a Cardinal. My one son is 26 years old, and I don't think he's ever seen me without a beard. It's not as black as it used to be, but it's still there.
Bruce Sutter
#28. The surest way of misunderstanding revelation is to take it literally, to imagine that God spoke to the prophet on a long-distance telephone. Yet most of us succumb to such fancy, forgetting that the cardinal sin in thinking about ultimate issues is literal-mindedness.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#29. A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
Colin Greenwood
#30. Your like Martha Stewart on crack, my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.
Debby Bull
#31. The field of extrospection is based on two cardinal questions: "What do I know?" and "How do I know it?" In the field of introspection, the two guiding questions are: "What do I feel?" and "Why do I feel it?" Most
Ayn Rand
#32. Romanticism demands mastery of the primary element of fiction: the art of storytelling - which requires three cardinal qualities: ingenuity, imagination, a sense of drama.
Ayn Rand
#33. The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.
Walter Russell
#34. Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.
Caroline Emelia Stephen
#35. Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.
Alexandre Dumas
#36. We are now becoming more aware of our links to the universe and are reaching out to the universe for knowledge. We are evolving from earth creatures to star creatures. Our minds now explore the worlds beyond, and we sense a destiny beyond this planet.
Douglas Cardinal
#37. Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
Cardinal Richelieu
#38. Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
Cardinal Richelieu
#39. Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
Cardinal Richelieu
#40. I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely ... gone.
Meghan O'Rourke
#41. The four cardinal pillars of the value culture I practise are: integrity; hard work and commitment; professional excellence; and commitment to society. I
Rajendra B. Aklekar
#42. To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!
Martin Zweig
#43. Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.
David Baldacci
#44. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
#45. In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
Carl Icahn
#46. It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.
Carolyn Porco
#47. Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#48. Self Promotion on Goodreads or Amazon forums is a cardinal sin. Everywhere else on the internet, it's just part of life. If you're running for President, that IS life.
Jack Bee
#49. I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.
Frank Keating
#50. A true dreamer must be prepared to make any sacrifice for his dream. Even if it means sacrificing himself. The dream must be everything. (The Cardinal to Capac Raimi)
Darren Shan
#51. The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
Andrew Dickson White
#52. Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
Lord Chesterfield
#53. The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
Abbe Pierre
#56. In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.
Cardinal Mazarin
#57. Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.
Catherine Cardinal
#58. Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.
Keith Devlin
#59. The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.
David Letterman
#60. Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
Joyce Meyer
#61. Underestimation of nonconventional units or a guerrilla enemy by regular forces is a cardinal military sin.
Howard R. Simpson
#62. War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
Cardinal Richelieu
#64. How often in your life have you been criticized for having the feelings you do?. Did this make you feel invalidated?. How often do you simply stuff your feelings and agree with others, saying yes, when you really mean no.
Catherine Cardinal
#65. Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.
Frank Thiess
#66. A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated - as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.
Ayn Rand
#67. Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.
Fethullah Gulen
#68. To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.
Cardinal Richelieu
#69. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
John Weitz
#70. Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? And is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
Walter Bagehot
#71. many cardinal characteristics of migraine aura, in its visual (scotomatous), tactile (paraesthetic) and aphasic forms. We
Oliver Sacks
#72. If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Benmont Tench
#73. If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.
Anne Boleyn
#74. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
#77. I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
John Burns
#78. For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#80. Fr. Benedict Groeschel says it in his uniquely northern New Jersey way: "Celibacy means that we belong exclusively to the Lord, from our brain cells to our sperm cells.
Dolan, Timothy M., Cardinal
#81. It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.
A. D. Coleman
#82. When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.
Cardinal Richelieu
#83. Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
William Fleming
#84. There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
Frank Capra
#85. The leader of the Christian army - Cardinal Pelagius himself - had warned the friar from Assisi that it would be folly to traverse the battlefield between the two armies to seek out this Sultan Malik al-Kamil.
Paul Moses
#86. There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.
Mark Warkentin
#87. Do you think your mother came back?" Shelby asks him.
"Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard.
Alice Hoffman
#88. When the zone calls, you must listen.
You never know how long being in the zone lasts.
It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.
JohnA Passaro
#89. At least, he thinks, the fellow has the wit to see what this is about: not one year's grudge or two, but a fat extract from the book of grief, kept since the cardinal came down. He says, 'Life pays you out, Norris. Don't you find?
Hilary Mantel
#91. Attention must be paid' is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.
Ralph Caplan
#92. Politics were so very simple, the Cardinal thought, just so long as a man believed no one, double-crossed everyone, kept a full treasury, and inveigled others into doing the dirty work.
Bernard Cornwell
#93. I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Cardinal Richelieu
#94. I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
Aaron Neville
#95. Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.
Anne Macdonald
#98. The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
E. O. Wilson
