Quotes with deserved

  • By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
  • If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

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  • Tacitus Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bo Bice But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.
    Bo Bice
    American singer and musician (1975 - )
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barry White Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Campbell Brown Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Pierre Corneille I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Walt Whitman I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
    An Ideal Husband (1895) Act IV.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Russell Lynes If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Arsene Wenger Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Russell Lynes The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George Eliot To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Samuel Johnson To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carlton Cuse We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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