Truckling Quotes

#1. Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#2. I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

George Eliot

#3. This morning's lecture was on how to avoid ninjas, which might have been interesting if step one hadn't been "Stay out of Japan." Furthermore, Crandall had quickly become sidetracked,

Stuart Gibbs

#4. The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Stanley Kubrick

#5. I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

Eric Shanteau

#6. The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. Love has to be a two-way street; otherwise, you'll never meet in the middle.

Brian MacLearn

#8. I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

Albert Einstein

#9. I would rather have you suffering and alive-than dead.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

Rachel Vincent

#11. Trusting others is all good and well, but distrusting them is better. People are rotten so always expect the worst in them. This way, when people don't turn out as bad as you thought they'd be, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's a lot better than being disappointed. Also,

R Shaw

#12. A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Friedrich Schiller

#13. A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

Garrison Keillor