A Quote by Fulton J. Sheen

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Fulton J. Sheen
American - Priest
May 8, 1895 - December 9, 1979

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

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Oscar Wilde

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Michael Kinsley

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

John Burroughs

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Grover Norquist

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Jean de La Fontaine

A song that pays tribute to mothers was always on my bucket list.

Jubin Nautiyal

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Oscar Wilde

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

Thomas Brooks

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Harold Wilson

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Natural Giving: Anything we do in life which is not out of that energy, we pay for and everybody else pays for. Anything we do to avoid punishment, everybody pays for. Everything we do for a reward, everybody pays for. Everything we do to make people like us, everybody pays for. Everything we do out of guilt, shame, duty, or obligation, everybody pays for.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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