A Quote by John Selden

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

John Selden

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Conceive Excellency Measure Men Other Ourselves Some

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John Selden
English - Statesman
December 16, 1584 - November 30, 1654

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Ovid

Competition sparks excellency.

Lorne Greene

Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.

Joel Beeke

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Henry Fielding

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

Henry A. Kissinger

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

Henry A. Kissinger

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Manfred von Richthofen

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

William Shakespeare

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Philip Sidney

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.

William Law

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.

Yasser Arafat

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.