Intolerably Quotes

#1. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

#2. Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

R. K. Milholland

#3. Finally, he gave up trying to quiet her and lit a cigarette, the last resort of a man who finds himself in an intolerably stupid position.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#4. A person, be it a man or a woman, who has not been exposed to the great wonders of literature, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

#5. Mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old?

Herman Melville

#6. I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

Sebastian Faulks

#7. I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#8. If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

Rosanne Cash

#9. Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Elbert Hubbard

#10. If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?

Celia Thaxter

#11. It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring ...

Vissarion Belinsky

#12. Oh Gertrud,' I cried, intolerably stirred by the bare mention of that
bed, 'this is a bleak and mischievous world, isn't it? Do you think we
shall ever be warm and comfortable and happy again?

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#13. It must be admitted, however, that life in More's Utopia, as in most others, would be intolerably dull.

Bertrand Russell

#14. I note however that this diary writing does not count as writing, since I have just re-read my year's diary and am much struck by the rapid haphazard gallop at which it swings along, sometimes indeed jerking almost intolerably over the cobbles.

Virginia Woolf

#15. For other organisms, bumbling along from here to nowhere is well managed. For us, it is a messy business and often intolerably horrific. To end all this paradox and horror [...] we must cease reproducing. Nothing less will do.

Thomas Ligotti

#16. The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.

John Carroll

#17. Those who suffer intolerably learn to hide their afflictions, both necessary and unnecessary, because the world does not run on pain time but on happy time, whether or not that happiness is honestly felt or a mask for the blackest despondency.

Thomas Ligotti

#18. The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Charles Darwin

#19. Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.

Mark Forsyth

#20. I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Charles Darwin

#21. Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

Eleanor Rathbone

#22. Sometimes i's not about the win, it's about the experience.

Junnita Jackson

#23. He had fallen in love with this wild, beautiful country and everything it contained. It was the kind of love people dream of having with other people: selfless and free of doubt, reverent and everlasting.

Michael Blake

#24. Love is more important than material possessions.

Thomas F. Wilson

#25. A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Walter Bagehot

#26. Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

Benji Madden

#27. We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.

Billy Graham

#28. I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Henry Ward Beecher

#29. A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

#30. The Desert of Lost Things," Puck said dramatically. "Well, that's appropriate. We're here, aren't we?

Julie Kagawa

#31. God gave me a lot of great things to accomplish in my life, and right now, I'm so far behind I ain't ever gonna die.

Colleen Hoover

#32. Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

John Hope Bryant

#33. A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Douglas Pagels

#34. I'm like the curious cat. You know what they say - satisfaction brought him back.

Stephen King