Quotes about idols

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

— James Russell Lowell

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.

— Andrew Matthews

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

— John Selden

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

— William Shakespeare

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

— George Bernard Shaw

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

— Richard H. Tawney

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry.

— William B. Ullathorne

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

— William Wordsworth