Top 34 Deign Quotes
#1. Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
#2. My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
Jared Harris
#3. Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.
Roland Barthes
#4. Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
#5. As long as you are following God's will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline? How many whales do you suppose God will deign send to swallow you? When does God run out of whales?
Brian Evenson
#6. But you never deign to look at yourself or listen to yourself. So you have no reason to claim credit from anyone for those attentions, since you showed them not because you wanted someone else's company but because you could not bearyour own.
Seneca.
#7. Pity! Religion has so seldom found
A skilful guide into poetic ground!
The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray
And every muse attend her in her way.
William Cowper
#8. Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain,
To prove that demon pox warps the brain.
So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain
That the pox-ridden worm was slain:
For to believe in me, you all must deign.
Cassandra Clare
#9. Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
Horace
#10. I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.
St Patrick
#11. Follow what you love! ... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.
Georgie Anne Geyer
#12. Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.
John Green
#13. For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men
delighted, and with frequent intercourse
thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.
John Milton
#14. Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.
John Derbyshire
#15. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.
Samuel Johnson
#16. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#17. I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.
Corey Taylor
#18. But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put
To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
William Cowper
#19. A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.
Frederic Morton
#20. Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.
Leigh Bardugo
#21. May my life someday be so limpid that the Muses will deign to mirror themselves in it and that we can see the reflections of their smiles and their dances skimming across its surface.
Marcel Proust
#22. A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
Emile M. Cioran
#23. Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.
Michelle Obama
#24. I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.
Rachel Hartman
#25. I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
Arnold Palmer
#26. So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.
Ali Smith
#27. Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.
Madeline Hunter
#28. Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
Plato
#29. I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
Erno Rubik
#31. We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
George Herbert
#32. Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.
Ashwin Sanghi
#33. This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.
Djuna Barnes
#34. A life without Jesus Christ is a life without purpose.
Evans Biya
