A Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
English - Poet
January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864

There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.

Christopher Voss

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Karl Popper

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

Susan Collins

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

Pete Wells

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

Brennan Manning

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

Walt Disney

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Idries Shah

If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.

John Gerard

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Walter Savage Landor

The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

P. J. O'Rourke

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.

Wallace D. Wattles

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Albert Einstein

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

Samuel Smiles

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.