Famous quotes with On grounds

• Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

  George Eliot
• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  Patricia Ireland
• Countless numbers of people have justified war on grounds of the end in view and the spirit of the combatants.

  Kirby Page
• This question of yours, Sir, about my being a house painter — or rather, not a question, you simply made a statement — is typical of the whole character of this trial that is being foisted on me. You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such. But for the moment I do recognize it, on grounds of compassion, as it were. One can't regard it except with compassion, if one is to regard it at all. I do not say that your procedure is contemptible, but I should like to present that epithet to you for your private consumption.

  Franz Kafka
• I hate publicity, celebrity, fame, and notoriety, all of which are associated with controversy in its public form. But, in fairness, all my life I've been rather upfront with my opinions and never hidden them on grounds of conformity or (I fear) politesse. However, until the wretched Polish consulate affair, I don't think I was ever controversial—I was certainly not known outside of the hermetic little world of the academy, and my contrarian scholarly writings aroused no great fuss.

  Tony Judt

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