first-rate Quotes

What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

In this world, there's even room for quality.

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.