Ruins Quote by Anton Chekhov Download Open image “It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.” — Anton Chekhov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ruins Scandal
Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. — Tom Petri Copy Share Image
What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I'm gonna kill myself, get a little headline news. — Elton John Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but why lie to the people? Why assure the people they are right in their ignorance and that their crude prejudices are sacred truth? Can any splendid future possibly justify this basr lie? Were I a politician,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I would hate to see a UFO. Because it would ruin my life. I would have to talk about it the rest of my… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image
