Quotes with compromise

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.