Credit Quotes - Page 19
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.19
Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006
One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.
The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
Robert Herrick, Lord Thomas Maitland Dundrennan (1823). “Hesperides (continued) His noble numbers: or, his pious pieces”, p.127
Anyone who takes a hit for Adrian Ivashkov deserves some credit.
Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.262, Penguin
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.203, A&C Black
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1913). “The works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: dramas, poems, translations, speeches, unfinished sketches, and ana”