A Quote by Antisthenes

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of. — © Antisthenes
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
People say we need royalty. We have royalty in the United States - the Kardashians.
I would rather make a bad film which does well at the box office than a good film which does badly.
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.
I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.
The management teams in these royalty and streaming companies have the highest-quality research and the most visibility into all of the producers. So if you really want to know what's going on in the resource space, you should talk to the management team of a royalty company.
The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?
If someone has behaved badly with a woman. and she hasn't spoken about it for ten, 20, or 30 years, it's her prerogative when she wants to speak.
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.
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