Quotes About Ruffian

#1. He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.

William Goldman

#2. some evil old ruffian of a Dog-stealer

Charles Dickens

#3. Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

William Ernest Henley

#4. A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

Joseph Addison

#5. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Samuel Johnson

#6. I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man.

Mark Twain

#7. Ruffian he had once been, before Christ and Mrs.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. The scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.

Percy Williams Bridgman

#9. He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.

Mencius

#10. Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

John Brown

#11. In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Mark Twain

#12. Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Gautama Buddha

#13. In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

Tea Obreht

#14. I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

Ted Bell

#15. 'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.

Liane Moriarty

#16. No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether - a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led.

Eric Metaxas

#17. The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

Fernando Torres

#18. We work better with authoritative, empathic leaders, and empathic teachers like ourselves, that fit our morals, values, ethics, and principles.

Alexandria Ruffian

#19. Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that ...

Gino Norris

#20. Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.

Bayard Taylor

#21. Truth telling is the first building block of character
a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

Mona Charen

#22. When it comes to you
I can't help myself
I've never been this
attached
to someone's flaws

Audrey Rey

#23. I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions.

Oswald Pohl

#24. If we do not try, we will not know.

Ayya Khema

#25. Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Thomas Paine

#26. There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

Samuel Johnson