Top 21 Cardinals Quotes

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Elsie de Wolfe

Design, Virtue, Cardinals

Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

Anne Boleyn

Done, Cardinals, Lays

Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

Fethullah Gulen

Sin, Terrorism, Cardinals

"Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

John Adams

Defense, Cardinals, Duty

"The military policy of the United States". Book by Emory Upton, 1912.

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Georg Cantor

Numbers, Cardinals, Consistent

"From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book by Jean van Heijenoort, 1967.

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

Walter Bagehot

Investing, Aids, Cardinals

Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

Vincente Minnelli

Art, Cardinals, Department

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The four cardinal points are three: South and North.

Vicente Huidobro

Three, Four, Cardinals

Vicente Huidobro, Eliot Weinberger (2003). “Altazor (Revised Edition).”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

Aaron Neville

Awards, Cardinals, Heard

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

Pope John Paul II

Sports, Skis, Cardinals

Quoted in St. Petersburg Times, 7 Sept. 1987

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

Virtue, Cardinals, Temperance

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

Colin Greenwood

Mistake, Errors, Cardinals

What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

Stan Musial

Used, Made, Cardinals

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

William Shakespeare

Rome, Sloth, Cardinals

William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Henry VIII! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.146, BookCaps Study Guides

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Steven Pressfield

Virtue, Cardinals, Contempt

Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.160, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.

Nat Hentoff

Thinking, Doe, Cardinals

Source: thedailyhatch.org