Top 100 A Menace Quotes
#1. I should not have called you a menace. I'm afraid I allowed my temper to get the best of me, and I spoke out of anger."
Arabella's eyes turned a little misty. "That's when the truth comes out the loudest.
Jen Turano
#2. The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.
Gregory Corso
#3. Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes you want to hide under the coffee table.
Lemony Snicket
#4. The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Norman Borlaug
#5. so conspicuous was his abhorrence of "rebellious insolence" that he might have been enunciating the name of a menace resolved to undermine not just Winesburg, Ohio, but the great republic itself.
Philip Roth
#6. Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace.
Karen Hawkins
#7. Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."
Kam Williams
#8. Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
Helen Fisher
#9. Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.
George Jonas
#10. The statesman will soon find himself thwarted in some way or other, will deduce from this opposition a menace first to his plans, then to national prestige, and finally to the existence of the state itself - and so, regarding his country as the party attacked, will engage in a war of defence.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#11. And if i
if i ever let love go
because the hatred and the whisperings
become a phantom dictate i o-
bey in lieu of impulse and realities
(the blossoming flamingos of my
wild mimosa trees)
then let love freeze me
out.
(from i must become a menace to my enemies)
June Jordan
#12. A child ... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.
Bruno Bettelheim
#13. No, I says, He stole it agin. He's a thief an a menace an I'm gonna trade him in fer a umberella.
Moira Young
#14. What is happening in the Sahel for the past several months is that terrorists have structured themselves, have installed themselves. It's not simply a menace for west Africa.
Francois Hollande
#15. A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#16. Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana ... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.
Dan Quayle
#17. He was horrible and fascinating all at once, like a scorpion prepared to strike, all angles and sharp lines and menace.
Kelly Creagh
#18. Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ...
James Thurber
#19. An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
Maria Semple
#20. Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260
Donna Tartt
#21. I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
Albert Einstein
#22. I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.
Celia Imrie
#23. The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.
Anthony Lane
#24. I'm a menace to society,
But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me.
After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing ...
You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.
Ice Cube
#27. In the deep shadow of the tree there was a deeper shadow yet, black, inchoate, vague - a crouching form full of savage vigor and menace. It
Arthur Conan Doyle
#28. It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
Terry Brooks
#29. It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.
Simon Hoggart
#30. And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
Boris Pasternak
#31. When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
Herman Melville
#32. I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven's firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.
E.B. White
#33. The real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.
Jean Kerr
#34. 'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
Larenz Tate
#35. The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
Shimon Peres
#36. Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
Moses Finley
#37. What is she to me? Except a menace - a danger you've chosen to inflict on all of us.
Stephenie Meyer
#38. How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.
Larenz Tate
#39. People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.
Maria Semple
#40. A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.
Will Ferrell
#41. If a man ... .who's playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn't dedicate himself to the job, I'd be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he's a menace
Bill Shankly
#42. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
Ludwig Von Mises
#43. Set your peace free
before your caged mind catches
you again in another dream trap
where you may loathe to be your own menace
awaiting in hope of a war-less world !
Munia Khan
#44. For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future ... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time ...
Rachel Carson
#45. The word 'teach' suddenly conveys a sense of menace that is foreign to me.
Anna Bayes
#46. What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [ ... ] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
Camille Paglia
#47. Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F. Kennedy
#48. If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.
Tony Kushner
#49. A word with obvious menace, yet an entity they were told was good?
James Dashner
#50. ISIL struck France because it is 'free' and 'the nation of human rights'. This is not a war of civilisation, as these assassins don't have any. This is a war against the jihadist menace that threatens not just France.
Francois Hollande
#51. The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.
Carl R. Rogers
#52. Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace.
Robert Ardrey
#53. The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
Sean O'Casey
#54. Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
Brigham Young
#55. Etienne gave me lessons. Three of them. Then he said I was a menace and refused to teach me anything more for fear that I'd slice his head off.
Seanan McGuire
#56. The industry is a menace to artists.
Nikki Sixx
#58. So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim.
Dennis Miller
#59. I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
S.E. Hinton
#60. It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to ... American democracy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#61. Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.
Rod Serling
#62. If a Martian were watching our television shows, he'd conclude that guns were more common than hammers. They're not evil themselves--they're tools--but everywhere you go, bad people have them. It behooves the righteous to at least know how they work.
John Sandford
#63. I'm sorry. He's driving me a little crazy this morning." "That's their job, dear. Sari's grandfather was a menace." She looked up with a smile. "And yet we love them.
Elizabeth Hunter
#64. I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
Gale Gordon
#65. You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.
Cassandra Clare
#66. I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
Raymond Carver
#67. It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
H.G.Wells
#69. Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.
Simon Callow
#70. Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
Hunter S. Thompson
#71. If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#72. Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.
Scott Farris
#73. In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without mystery or menace or magic.
Amor Towles
#74. Horst lurked in a corner, sitting upon a tea chest, and undermining any menace his vampiric presence might have brought to proceedings by reading an ancient copy of Comic Cuts that he had found somewhere.
Jonathan L. Howard
#75. The country girls were considered a menace to the social order. Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.
Willa Cather
#76. Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
Ian Watson
#77. Politicians are nauseating by definition ... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
Gerhard Richter
#79. This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.
Frank I. Cobb
#80. Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#81. yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..
Elliot Mabeuse
#82. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
Euripides
#83. God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#85. If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.
Stephen Crane
#87. The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.
Rod Serling
#88. No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
Albert Speer
#90. Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to be continued in our next.
G.K. Chesterton
#91. Even getting a restraining order - a fairly new legal tool - requires acquiring the credibility to convince the courts that some guy is a menace and then getting the cops to enforce it. Restraining orders often don't work anyway.
Rebecca Solnit
#92. That woman's horse is crazy!" Sanders barked. He shook his head. "The thing is a menace. If it hadn't tried to take out the enemy on its own, or had damn good blood lines running through it, I'd say let's eat it.
K.F. Breene
#93. The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Jean Kerr
#94. If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
Helen Keller
#96. Politicians differ in their views whether Russia or Islamic State is a bigger menace, and I personally think that Islamic State is the bigger threat.
Milos Zeman
#97. I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.
Henry Ford
#98. Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.
Margaret Beckett
#99. Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace.
Bob Graham
#100. His gaze was heat across her cheeks, her lips. It was touch. His eyes were hypnotic, his brows black and velvet. He was copper and shadow, honey and menace, the severity of knife-blade cheekbones and a widow's peak like the point of a dagger.
Laini Taylor
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