Top Merit Quotes
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
Kate Adie
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward F. Halifax
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Francis Wright
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
James Russell Lowell 
Stephen Jay Gould 
Jean Henri Fabre 
Ward Churchill 
Coco Chanel 
Charles Caleb Colton 
Sophocles 
William Godwin All Merit Quotes
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper 
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
Sophocles
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In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Thorstein Veblen
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I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.
James Gunn
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
Annie Proulx
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
George Byron
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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
Thomas Sydenham
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