Company Quotes - Page 35

• I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Coffee, Eating, Restaurants

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• It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

  George Eliot

  Littles, Modern, States

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.35, 谷月社

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• It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Society, Ingredients, Depends

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• 111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Love Is, Dirt

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.361

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• A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bills, Figs, Show Me

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• Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Memories, Two, Needs

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• Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, Immorality

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sympathy, Light, Giving

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• The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Kings, Dinner, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.134

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• A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Mirth, Sin

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Laughter, Fellows

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1993). “Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy”, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Race, People

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.481

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• Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Cooking, Good Company, Calories

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

  Rebecca West

  Flames, Age, Grass

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

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• letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lonely, Communication, Journey

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

  Esther Dyson

  Listening To Others, Visionaries, Way

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• Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cowardice, Higher, Persons

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• The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.

  George Washington

  Expensive

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.373

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• It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

  Henry Fielding

  May, Admiration, Wells

  Henry Fielding (1811). “The History of Amelia”, p.113

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• Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

  Helen Rowland

  Perfect, Solitude, Pleasure

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  No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Book, Reading, House

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1870). “Little Pussy Willow”, p.66

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• I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Trying, Use

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

  Jane Austen

  Family, Good Company, Connexion

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.91, Mondial

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• There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

  Agnes Repplier

  Book, Heart, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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