Top 21 Herbert Samuel Quotes
#2. The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel
#3. An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Herbert Samuel
#4. I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
#5. It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Herbert Samuel
#6. I am big believer in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.
J. Michael Straczynski
#7. What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? ... She is too ignorant for instruction, too obstinate for entreaty, and too weak for reason.
Fanny Burney
#8. Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
#9. Two days she watched them, seeing them refuse all food or comfort and seeking each other as blind men seek, wretched apart and together more wretched still, for then they trembled each for the first avowal.
Joseph Bedier
#14. Jebediah was dragging Alyssa down, chaining her to the boredom and mundaneness of the human realm.
She must be set free.
A.G. Howard
#16. The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members.
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
#17. I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball ...
Ted Leo
#19. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Herbert Samuel
#20. Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
David Mitchell
