Creditable Quotes

#1. It is certainly more creditable to cultivate the earth for the sustenance of man, than to be the confidant, and sometimes the accomplice, of his vices; which is the profession of a lawyer.

Mary Shelley

#2. It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.

Preneet Kaur

#3. She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself for the object of his affections. But this at least she found exaggerated.

Ford Madox Ford

#4. In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

Siegfried Sassoon

#5. Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works.

C.S. Lewis

#6. The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#8. But in some cases it is really more creditable to be carried away by an emotion, however unreasonable, which springs from a great love, than to be unmoved.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Jonathan Swift

#10. We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

Lucy Larcom

#11. Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#12. Required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

Ted Conover

#13. I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

John Michael Higgins

#14. The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.

Thomas Hardy

#15. When I think of Bollywood dance, I think of choreographies from the '70s and '80s. That was true Bollywood, what is now known as old school Bollywood.

Terence Lewis

#16. Here's the thing about Donald Trump: he never apologizes; he's never wrong no matter what crazy thing he says. He's the white Kanye.

Bill Maher

#17. Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Michael Gurian

#18. In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.

FM-2030

#19. I hear the trees whispering sometimes. They don't talk to everyone. Or maybe they do, but not everyone listens. Do you hear them?

J.J. Brown

#20. I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

Markus Wolf

#21. He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.

Elizabeth Yates

#22. Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world

Aidy Boothroyd