Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 461 till 480 of 1944.

  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
    - +
     0
  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
    - +
     0
  • Kofi Annan However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Eric Hoffer However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Ivan Turgenev However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce McCulloch However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • Anna Lindh Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • T. S. Eliot Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
    - +
     0
  • Susan B. Anthony I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
    - +
     0
  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • June Jordan I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ovid I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
    - +
     0
  • Washington Irving I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • Winston Churchill I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Bennett I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
    - +
     0
All much-maligned famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 24)