Quotes About Slighting

#1. All of this caused Kiyoaki constant pain. In comparison with Satoko's public humiliation, however, he did not even have a slighting remark to contend with. And however acute his private agony, it was, after all, the torment of a coward.

Yukio Mishima

#2. It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That's what extreme diversity does to us.

James C. Dobson

#3. I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Lynn Coady

#4. There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius, wit and taste to recommend them.

Jane Austen

#5. He made slighting remarks about the committee's enforcement, and, well, rules is rules as the rules say someplace, or at least as all the oldies say they say.

N.D. Wilson

#6. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

Ben Stein

#7. For beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

John Milton

#8. Maybe broken hearts can mend more easily than broken hands and eyes

Lisa McMann

#9. Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.

Massad Ayoob

#10. There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life
happiness, freedom, and peace of mind
are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton C. March

#11. Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

Alan Alda

#13. I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

Marc Ribot