Top 22 Bugbear Quotes
#1. The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.
Penelope Keith
#3. Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
#4. It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
William Hazlitt
#5. Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
James Purefoy
#6. The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.
Ron Greenwood
#7. But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
Alexander Pope
#8. A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
William Hazlitt
#10. There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#11. To write, you have to want something to survive you.
Elena Ferrante
#12. Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
Sri Chinmoy
#14. I can afford just about anything I'm willing to pay for.
Katja Millay
#15. What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.
Jake Busey
#18. When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing.
Nora Roberts
#19. We would love to have other children. It hasn't happened. We haven't been lucky enough.
Marg Helgenberger
#20. I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results ... In the past I have tried a number of experiments ... but without any success.
Ernest Rutherford
#21. Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
Toni Cade Bambara
#22. As Carlyle put it - All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been - it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books.
Napoleon Hill
