Top 100 Quotes About Whately
#2. The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.
Kevin Whately
#3. I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.
Kevin Whately
#4. Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.
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#5. Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.
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#6. It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,
a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.
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#7. I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.
Kevin Whately
#8. I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.
Kevin Whately
#9. Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.
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#10. Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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#11. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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#12. Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
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#13. Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
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#14. Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
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#15. A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
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#16. I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.
Kevin Whately
#17. Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.
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#18. Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.
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#19. The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.
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#20. As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
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#21. It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.
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#22. McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
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#23. To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
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#24. You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.
Kevin Whately
#25. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.
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#26. The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
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#27. I'm not very relaxed; I always need to be doing something.
Kevin Whately
#28. Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.
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#29. People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
Kevin Whately
#30. As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.
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#31. The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
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#32. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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#33. I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.
Kevin Whately
#34. I only really like to watch things like 'Time Team.' I'd rather be out walking the dog. It's all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest.
Kevin Whately
#35. To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
Richard Whately
#36. Let's just say I've never relied on my looks to make a living.
Kevin Whately
#37. Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
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#38. It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.
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#39. I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.
Kevin Whately
#40. Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.
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#41. The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.
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#42. With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
Kevin Whately
#43. Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
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#47. Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
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#48. Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.
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#49. The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind ...
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#50. He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
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#51. The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such a mingling.
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#52. It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.
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#53. Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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#54. Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.
Kevin Whately
#55. While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.
Kevin Whately
#56. I love taking the boat to the Farne Islands, a few miles offshore. It has a National Trust bird sanctuary with seals and every sort of seabird you can imagine.
Kevin Whately
#57. Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.
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#58. It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
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#59. The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax.
Kevin Whately
#63. When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
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#64. I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.
Kevin Whately
#65. There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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#66. I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.
Kevin Whately
#67. Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.
Richard Whately
#68. You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.
Kevin Whately
#69. I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He's taller than me and blond. But when I see Lewis walk into a room with John Thaw, it's like my son has just come onto the screen. That's very strange indeed!
Kevin Whately
#70. As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
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#71. Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.
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#72. Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.
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#73. If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.
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#74. Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,
the every-day life of each particular time and country.
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#75. The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
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#76. Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
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#77. Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
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#78. Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
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#79. It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,
that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.
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#80. Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience
more desirous of security than of safety.
Richard Whately
#81. Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
Kevin Whately
#82. The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.
Richard Whately
#83. I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.
Kevin Whately
#84. Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Richard Whately
#85. Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately
#86. I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
Kevin Whately
#87. Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.
Kevin Whately
#88. Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community.
Kevin Whately
#89. One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
Richard Whately
#90. I loved Martin Offiah, Andy Farrell and Shaun Edwards in that Wigan team, and they are still heroes today. They were outstanding players and great to watch.
Kevin Whately
#91. Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
Richard Whately
#92. Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.
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#93. No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..
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#94. As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.
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#95. Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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#96. A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
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#97. Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.
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#98. Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Richard Whately
#99. I wish people would take more care of the countryside.
Kevin Whately
#100. With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.
Kevin Whately
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