Second Hand Quotes - Page 5

• All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

  George Henry Lewes

  Hands, Literature, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• What is love but a second-hand emotion?

  Tina Turner

  Hands, What Is Love, Cynical

  Song: What's Love Got To Do With It, Album: Private Dancer, 1993

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• The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob are influenced; it is they who the inspectors cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second hand carriages; no one cares for them or asks about them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.

  Walter Bagehot

  Cheer, Real, Hands

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• To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

  Agatha Christie

  Adventure, Dedication, Monotonous Life

  "Perfect partners in crime: Tommy and Tuppence" by Sarah Crompton, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2015.

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• Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Air, Hands

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.115, Univ of California Press

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• The nimble lie
  Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
  We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
  Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
  And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
  Till it has reached the goal.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Truth, Lying, Moving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Healing, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• [My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Feet, Eight, Historical Novels

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• Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Hands, Perception

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• I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Dog, Hands

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Mean, Hands

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• We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Views, Hands, Ideas

  J. Oswald Sanders (2017). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.106, Moody Publishers

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• In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Believe, School, Hands

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Daughter, Gratitude, Men

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• My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

  Wentworth Miller

  Hands, White, Racism

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• We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

  Mark Twain

  Cheer, Boys, Hands

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Hands, Nuts, Ideas

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• Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hands, Class, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.232

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• The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Trust, Knowledge, Science

  Michael Polanyi (2012). “Personal Knowledge”, p.221, Routledge

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