remarkable quotes

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very goodöin spite of all the people who say he is very good.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
   Attributed.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.12.

2 Quotes found. Displaying quotes 1 through 2

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2005 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.