Opprobrious Quotes

#1. The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study.

Thomas Mann

#3. The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance."
"What did he say about your appearance?"
"I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

Samuel Johnson

#5. The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#6. - I know he made you a promise, but circumstances have changed.
-The nature of promises, Linda, is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.

Frank Underwood

#7. We are design to be great so be great in all that you do!

Kimberly M. Redding

#8. I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

Jenny Downham

#9. I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

Billy Higgins

#12. The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Favorite thrillers - Roy Grace series by Peter James

Rex Garland

#14. On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.

Katherine Catmull

#15. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says. By such signs you can tell, for instance, what he thinks of his wife ...

Wendell Berry