Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius 15 in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all. Mme. de Staël.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. La Roche.

Good taste is the flower of good sense. A. Poincelot.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. Mme. Girardin.

Good the more / Communicated more abundant grows. Milton.

Good things take time. Dut. Pr. 20

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed. Emerson.

Good to begin well, but better to end well. Pr.

Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels / When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow good / After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. Lowell.

Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, / Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene; / Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain / And fall so hard, they bound and rise again. Lord Lansdowne.