Famous Quotes

"You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."

John Keats on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by John Keats

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

• "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."

• "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

• "Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."

• "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."