Grovelling Quotes

#1. If I had thought grovelling would get Livvie into my car, I would have made a good show of it. I'm shameless. - Caleb

C.J. Roberts

#2. True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

Julian Baggini

#3. Stop grovelling and start working.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead

Charlotte Bronte

#5. There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it

Andrew Schneider

#6. I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.

Colleen Hoover

#7. I was too concerned with my own dignity. Grovelling and compliments were the order of the day. I made the mistake of trying to teach them their business.

Debbie Horsfield

#8. I believe the Gods hate to be bored, so I do my best to amuse them. That way they smile on me. Your God,' Merlin said sourly, 'despises amusement, demanding grovelling worship instead. He must be a very sorry creature.

Bernard Cornwell

#9. The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness

Brigham Young

#10. Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken. Across these deep valleys a glorious causeway of grace must be raised.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.

Markus Zusak

#12. Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

Aga Khan III

#13. An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.

James Hogg

#14. He thoroughly intended to do some major grovelling. Olympic-style begging, if necessary.

Christy Reece

#15. He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.

Samuel Johnson

#16. Grovelling is not a substitute for doing your homework.

Eric S. Raymond

#17. O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!

William Shakespeare

#18. Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer
And the church of St. Geryon
Are the two things alone
That deserve to be known
In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#19. John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

David Letterman

#20. What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Julian Barnes

#21. Marriage, home life, and children, ought to be enjoyed by men and women together. Nobody - and least of all the child - is served by the present tendency to put these things all on one side as 'Woman's World.

Alva Myrdal

#22. The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

Lewis H. Lapham

#23. A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

Mencius

#24. Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Fulton J. Sheen

#25. The things you can't do will always outnumber the things you can do, and it doesn't matter. The secret of life is this, as the Actress said to the Bishop, 'Find your thing, and get on with it!

Anthony Chapman

#26. I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

Patti LuPone

#27. The smile that teased her lips transformed her face from beautiful to breathtakingly beautiful in a matter of seconds. He was damn thankful that she didn't know the effect that had on him or she'd do it to bring him to his knees and god help him, but he'd love every fucking second of it.

R.L. Mathewson

#28. Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

#29. Our brains are designed for efficiency, which sometimes expresses itself as laziness.

Tynan

#30. What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

William Shakespeare

#31. If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Mona Sutphen