Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
Beneficial quotes
Beneficial
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Emma Stone
Actress
"I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in."
Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life."
Plato
Philosopher
"And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?"
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial."
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"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed."
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"Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear."
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