Top Moderately Quotes
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Sydney Smith
Famous Moderately Authors
Miguel De Cervantes
E. B. White
Sydney Smith
John le Carre
Princess Diana
Truman Capote
Aaron Klug
Jerry Kramer
Thomas Paine
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All Moderately Quotes
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis 
64% of people like this quote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote 
56% of people like this quote
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana 
52% of people like this quote
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine 
51% of people like this quote
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Sydney Smith 
51% of people like this quote
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel De Cervantes 
50% of people like this quote
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
Jerry Kramer 
49% of people like this quote
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
Aaron Klug 
47% of people like this quote
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E. B. White 
45% of people like this quote
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.
John le Carre 
41% of people like this quote
