account quotes

• A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. (William Maugham) [account]
• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. (Douglas Adams) [president/account]
• Ability is of little account without opportunity. ( Napoleon I) [ability/account]
• It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. (Albert Camus) [give/account/art/teach]
• Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [company/account/etiquette/willpower]
• Going home must be like going to render an account. (Joseph Conrad) [housing/account]
• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. (George Eliot) [account/explanation]
• Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood? (William Hazlitt) [account/feeling/truth]
• Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. (Eugene Ionesco) [reality/take/account/obsessions]
• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. (William James) [being/find/account/more]
• The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [life/account/past]
• A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. (George Meredith) [human/motion/account]
• I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery? (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [company/news/account/exercise]
• The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. (Bertrand Russell) [account/account/knowledge/art]
• That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. (George Bernard Shaw) [account/fight]
• Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great. (Walt Whitman) [men/account/people/think]
• Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. (Oscar Wilde) [people/account]
• I don't feel good about taking the platform, merely on account of my celebrity. I believe that the people I support are in a position to make a better argument for the cause, based on facts and their expertise, than I am on the authority of my celebrity. (Harrison Ford) [account/celebrity/people/position]
• “If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.” (Doris Day) [men/account/women]
• “Online banking account hijacking is the fastest-growing form of identity theft we monitor, ... Regulators want to get in front of the problem rather than be reactive.” (Michael Jackson) [account/form/problem]
• “Online banking account hijacking is the fastest-growing form of identity theft we monitor. Regulators want to get in front of the problem rather than be reactive.” (Michael Jackson) [account/form/problem]
• I opened an account and a relationship. (Marg Helgenberger) [account]
• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. (Mahatma Gandhi) [religion/account/religion]
• An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. (Ambrose Bierce) [account/care/trace]
• History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. (Ambrose Bierce) [account]
• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. (Max Beerbohm) [give/account]
• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did. (Jack Adams) [men/account]
• I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal. (Benazir Bhutto) [account/attention/gold]

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