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Second-Rate Quotes

Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp."
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Judy Garland quote: "never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a..."
never be a second-rate version of someone else, be a first-rate version of yourself Judy Garland
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. Douglas Adams
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature. Jorge Luis Borges
Herman Hesse quote: "Sadly, I swallowed my tea and stared at the crowd of..."
Sadly, I swallowed my tea and stared at the crowd of second-rate elegance... Herman Hesse
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter."
I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter. W. Somerset Maugham
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. Joyce Carol Oates
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate. John Updike
He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here. Eugene O'Neill
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. W. Somerset Maugham
Yesterday evening Mrs. Arundel insisted on my going to the window, and looking at the glorious sky, as she called it? Of course I had to look at it? She is one of those absurdly pretty Philistines to whom one can deny nothing? And what was it? It was simply a very second-rate Turner, a Turner of a bad period Oscar Wilde
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "It's a shame that we have to choose between two such..."
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA. Jorge Luis Borges
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris L. M. Montgomery
A poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry he cannot write. The others write the poetry they dare not realise. Oscar Wilde
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but the first-rate writer can only be experience. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate. Willa Cather

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