Niggardly Quotes

#1. God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite.

Brother Andrew

#2. Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ...

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#4. Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

Honore De Balzac

#5. Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. But things are not so simple in life as in our thoughts, nor so rough and ready as in our poor idiotic language; and Harry lies about himself twice over when he employs this niggardly wolf-theory.

Hermann Hesse

#7. No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#8. It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed health system, and the most niggardly attitude against its old people.

Gunnar Myrdal

#10. How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Mark Twain

#11. In truth Mr Jonas Silk was as niggardly as he was jealous, and my sister Beatrice had as much interest in Kansas as she did in the czar of all the Russias, and so my brother Mr. Horace Silk worked out his plans in a white heat of frustrated eagerness.

Jane Smiley

#12. No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything save a beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was preeminently unbeautiful. Nature had been niggardly with him.

Jack London

#13. We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. He was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

#16. The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.

Olivia Newton-John

#17. Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.

Chris Cornell

#18. I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

Edward Witten

#19. Your love of glory must conquer your will to survive; or why fight at all? Why not be a smith, a brewer, a wool merchant? Why are you in the contest, if not to win, and if not to win, then to die?

Hilary Mantel

#20. Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

Fred Brooks

#21. I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I'm a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It's very hard to tell me 'no.'

Nicole Scherzinger

#22. Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.

Robert Southwell

#23. therapist who is able to think and connect while struggling with feelings that are vicariously linked to the patient's internal states. Returning

Duncan Cartwright

#24. When will you desist playing tour guide?" he asked. "I should think never. It is the greatest aspiration of my life to give historic tours," Cinderella lied

K.M. Shea

#25. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#26. The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.

Lisa Leslie