Stoops Quotes

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Modesty, Virtue, Breasts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.121

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• Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Strength, Justice, Coward

  1766 The Vicar of Wakefield, ch.13.

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• All is not gold that glitters,
  Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Sweet, Glasses, Gold

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Real, Evil, Encounters

  Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.273

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• Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Funny, Witty, Lying

  Oliver Goldsmith (1898). “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy ...”

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• Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Decay, Wealth

  The Deserted Village l. 51 (1770)

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Land, Decay

  1770 The Deserted Village, l.51-6.

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• The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Humble, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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• Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Giving, Grace

  John Stott (1998). “Romans: Encountering the Gospel's Power”, Intervarsity Press

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• it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Poverty, Easy, Difficult

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.157, Oxford University Press

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• A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  "William Shakespeare: The Complete Works".

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• Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Fighting, Giving

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

  Michael Ondaatje

  Hair, Long, Sorrow

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.8, Vintage

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• He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

  Howard Pyle

  Moon, Mud, Pennies

  Howard Pyle (2012). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to leave behind. With all I have to hold with hand and mind And heart, if need be, I will do my best. To keep their building balanced at my breast. I crouch down to prevent them as they fall; Then sit down in the middle of them all. I had to drop the armful in the road And try to stack them in a better load.

  Robert Frost

  Fall, Heart, Hands

  Robert Frost (1928). “West-running Brook”, Henry Holt

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Retirement

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Agony, Gold

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Remember You, Remembers You, Picks

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.

  Diana Ross

  Mother, Teenager, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  Barbra Streisand

  Girl, Father, Kids

  "The Piers Morgan Tonight Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 23, 2012.

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• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

  William Wordsworth

  Positive, Weed, Wisdom

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• All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he said, "Love you," and she had never said it back or even taken the trouble to name him - and manage somehow to fly away on wings that had not soared for six years.

  Toni Morrison

  Dog, Love You, Taken

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