Breaths Quote by Caitlin Thomas

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a…

— Anonymous

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

— Walter Bagehot

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible…

— Hermann Hesse

“Nothing would be regarded as obscene, I feel, if men were living out their inmost desires. What man dreads most is to be faced…

— Henry Miller

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and…

— George Amos Dorsey

...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to…

— Josef Pieper

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“One who provokes a person by speaking has only called to the surface the passion that was already there. The person who becomes disturbed…

— Dee Pennock

The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is…

— George Eliot

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his…

— Edmund Burke

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.

— Sophocles

“there were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently…

— André Aciman