Misprize Quotes

#1. Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.

Kingsley Amis

#2. Dusk shrouds the long and useless day.
Even the hope it denied us crumbles
To nothing ... Life is a drunken beggar
Holding out his hand to his own shadow.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

Hunter Hayes

#4. Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.

Alex Shoumatoff

#5. All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.

Saina Nehwal

#6. I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Ilona Andrews

#7. I started to my feet as suddenly as if he had struck me. If I had been a man, I would have knocked him down on the threshold of his own door, and have left his house, never on any earthly consideration to enter it again. But I was only a woman - and I loved his wife so dearly!

Wilkie Collins

#8. But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

Gene Tunney

#9. "MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD ... OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH ... "
"Ooh, that's a nice song," said the Hogfly, ever polite.

Cressida Cowell

#10. I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back.

Ocean Vuong