Top 41 Quotes About William Pitt
#1. From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#2. The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
Billy Graham
#3. Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
Kate Christensen
#4. We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.
Alan Redpath
#5. When we suggest victims can stop rape, we also (however unintentionally) imply that rape is an inevitable aspect of life rather than an action deliberately carried out by a perpetrator.
Laura Bates
#7. An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#9. One day," he said,"I shall find the right spell and banish the Darkness And on that day I will come to you.
Susanna Clarke
#10. Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
William Pitt
#11. I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#12. No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
William Wilberforce
#13. I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task ...
James Woods
#14. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
William Pitt
#15. I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.
William Pitt The Younger
#16. They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.
William Rivers Pitt
#17. Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
William Pitt
#18. I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.
William Pitt
#19. The next time you think that there's something that you "can't live without", wait for a week and then see if you're still alive or not
Guy Kawasaki
#20. Shouldn't you be with your pack?' she whispered without looking at him.
'Actually' he said leaning in close. So close his shoulder brushed against hers. Pain, emotional pain from just that light touch went right to her heart.' I'm exatly where I belong' Lucas whispered.
C.C. Hunter
#22. He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to the cause of doing as little as possible.
James Herriot
#23. Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#24. The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#25. Your mother wouldn't describe a combination of Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, and Prince William as 'quite a catch.' There is nobody walking the earth good enough to be her son-in-law.
Neil Gaiman
#26. Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.
Paz De La Huerta
#27. Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt
#29. Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height
Leon Eisenberg
#30. I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in particular. I'm just looking for something that's new and different. It could be a drama or a comedy, I just want to challenge myself and work with people that inspire me.
Hilary Swank
#32. There is a corner in every human heart made to be filled with hatred, fear, and violence. It is our common curse.
William Rivers Pitt
#33. I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.
Edward Ruscha
#34. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the winds may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter; but the king of England cannot enter.
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#35. The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.
William Pitt
#36. The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth.
Abhijit Naskar
#37. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
William Pitt
#38. Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
William Pitt
#40. Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt The Younger
#41. Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
William Pitt
