Quality

"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."

"Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind."

"The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket."

"So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."

"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."

"Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality."

"A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!"

"It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports."

"Quality means meeting customers' (agreed) requirements, formal and informal, at lowest cost, first time every time."

"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected."

"Quality means no mistakes. That's a very interesting point. ... perfectionism ..."

"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."

"“Aristocracy,” taken in its etymological sense, means precisely the power of the elect. The elect, by the very definition of the word, can only be the few, and their power, or rather their authority, being due to their intellectual superiority, has nothing in common with the numerical strength on which democracy is based, a strength whose inherent tendency is to sacrifice the minority to the majority, and therefore quality to quantity and the elect to the masses."

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

"The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."

"Hard as a piece of the nether millstone."

"It is the quality of reason to be invariable and constant; and of equity, to give to one man what, in the same case, is given to another."

"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?"

"Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what we can measure is more important than what we can't measure. Think about that for a minute. It means that we make quantity more important than quality."

"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."

"It is the Lord’s work, and when we are on the Lord’s errand, we are entitled to the Lord’s help. Remember that whom the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies."

"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality."

"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."

"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."

"Fine by defect, and delicately weak."

"That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less."

"Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising in the world."

"Come, give us a taste of your quality."

"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."

"Nothing endures but personal qualities."