Top 58 Drawback Quotes
#1. There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.
John Knowles
#2. When writing fantasy
novels, one must be careful what one
invents. For every benefit, there is
usually a drawback.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Our huge population is not a drawback, it's an advantage.
Sumit Agarwal
#4. Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
J.K. Rowling
#5. Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
Glen Cook
#6. I wish to marry her ... But she has one drawback, her attitude is uncooperative.
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge
John E. Wordslinger
#8. I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
David Mamet
#10. Believe me, I have no please in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No, I can safely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed. It is without a drawback.
Jane Austen
#11. Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose
and then to find
ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.
Ray Milland
#13. The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.
Bill Keller
#14. What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
John Steinbeck
#15. The only big drawback to writing is its negative impact on reading.
Michael Kroft
#16. In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.
Truman Capote
#18. The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
#19. Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained
Carlos Castaneda
#20. I'm very interested in religion and different religions, and I know quite a lot about it. I love gospel music, and I love going to churches, but the one drawback is that I don't actually believe in God. And it is quite a handicap, you know.
Nick Lowe
#21. Jesper always felt better when people were shooting at him. It wasn't that he liked the idea of dying (in fact, that potential outcome was a definite drawback), but if he was worrying about staying alive, he couldn't be thinking about anything else.
Leigh Bardugo
#22. The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.
Max Euwe
#23. Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher Fry
#24. Fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
Edna O'Brien
#25. Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.
Charles Dickens
#26. The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.
Robin McKinley
#27. Why hang about in long drawn out fights, you want them to be over as quick as possible and I was blessed with a pitiless punch that sorted the men out from the boys. The only drawback to having such a vicious punch is that my hands have been broken so many times over the years.
Stephen Richards
#28. Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
John Philip Sousa
#29. Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
Soong May-ling
#30. I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered
that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.
Robert Browning
#31. I know this sounds stupid, but in some ways, the way I look is a drawback.
Tim Daly
#32. Isolation is not a drawback to those who understand that isolation is the point. I
Don DeLillo
#34. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.
Denis Fitzpatrick
#35. Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch Spinoza
#36. One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute whazzaam, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like What's it all about, when you get right down to it?
Terry Pratchett
#37. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.
Oscar Wilde
#38. It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback.
Cassandra Clare
#39. Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say ... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.
Oscar Wilde
#40. The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.
Adrian Belew
#41. Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
Imre Kertesz
#42. The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.
Oscar Wilde
#43. One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
Joseph Epstein
#44. Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.
Marcel Proust
#46. The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
Marilyn Monroe
#47. The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.
John Krasinski
#48. Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#49. A drawback to success in life is that failure, when it does come, acquires an exaggerated importance.
P.G. Wodehouse
#50. Raveand Rhamnusia, Goddes of Dispyte,' said Lymond acidly. 'I am trying to get you home, vide the shiten shepherd and the clene shepe, with your woolly chops spotless. The only drawback to date is that the bloody sheep is going to have to carry the shepherd, so far as I can see.
Dorothy Dunnett
#51. Now, there is some concern about the fact that, given we are in the middle of a desert, there is no actual water at the waterfront. And that is a definite drawback, I agree.
Joseph Fink
#52. I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
Bill Nye
#53. Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
Ida Tarbell
#54. Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher,' said Harry loudly, 'there was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head.' This
J.K. Rowling
#55. I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
Allison Janney
#56. The main job requirement for a network-news anchor is thinking it's the only important job in the world. This is a field where solemn gravitas isn't a drawback; it's the whole point.
Rob Sheffield
#57. You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.
Oscar Wilde
#58. It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.
Jonathan Coe
