Profession Quotes - Page 4
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company
"Timon of Athens". Act IV, scene 3, line 430, 1623.
Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.
"Married Love". Poems of the War and After, 1934.
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.
Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”
Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.222, St. Martin's Press
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
1951 I Am a Composer.