Churl Quotes

#1. When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

William Shakespeare

#2. He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl.

Joanna Baillie

#3. War is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain;
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak;
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable
As meanest office of the worldly churl.

Joanna Baillie

#4. Maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks ...

John Geddes

#5. I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I'm living right now. Everything's going great. I'm having a good time.

Tracy Letts

#6. My blood will only buy you that fool's regard. I will pay a high price for you to be respected by a churl. Nothing bought with blood is worth having, young man.

Robin Hobb

#7. boor (which originally just meant "farmer," as in the German Bauer and Dutch boer); villain (from the French vilein, a serf or villager); churlish (from English churl, a commoner); vulgar (common, as in the term vulgate); and ignoble, not an aristocrat.

Steven Pinker

#8. I feel like my life started the moment I met you," he murmured.

Katie Reus

#9. As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.

Geoffrey Hinton

#10. No need to explain. Life is short, baby girl. You take every little piece of happiness you can get.

Lexi Blake

#11. Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Katherine Anne Porter

#12. So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night.

Clemence Housman

#13. Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Mike Nichols