Quotes About Affronts

#1. Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.

Sara Suleri

#2. What pudor pejorocracy affronts
how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot
what breeds where dirtiness is law
what crawls
below

Charles Olson

#3. Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn't understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Melika Dannese Lux

#4. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

Randall Robinson

#5. We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.

Teresa Of Avila

#6. It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.

Anne Bronte

#7. A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

William Penn

#8. Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

George F. Will

#9. It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Epictetus

#10. The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

John Wesley

#11. Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

#12. If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. Lavender and rosemary should be cut in the morning, though, when the volatile oils had risen with the sun; it wasn't as potent if taken later in the day.

Diana Gabaldon

#14. Friends and flowers are two of God's most extravagant blessings. Nurture both. - Mimi Greenwood Knight -

Gary Chapman

#15. Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#16. The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

Gabriel Basso

#17. In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

Hamish Bowles

#18. But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

Ellen Hopkins

#19. Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. Maybe you should slow down, so I can catch you.

Melissa Marr