Flagellation Quotes

#1. Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Jessica Mitford

#2. It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics ... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#4. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Truman Capote

#5. ROM16.20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

Anonymous

#6. Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

Noel Coward

#7. That's right, I'm a reclusive pervert, and I make no apologies for it. And, giving the matter some thought, a reclusive pervert is much preferable to an extroverted pervert.

L. H. Cosway

#8. Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned the Europeans with one breath, he was bound to damn the Moroccans with the next. No one escaped but him, and that was because he hated himself most of all.

Paul Bowles

#9. Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

William Styron

#10. There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#11. Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.

Lisa Wingate

#12. The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

John Updike

#13. I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies.

Demetri Martin

#14. Don't make me live without you. I can't do it, Nina.

K.M. Scott

#15. You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

Jesse Ventura

#16. Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.

Hamish Bowles

#17. As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

John Cusack

#19. After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

Chris Pine