Assails Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,… — William James
• No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots… — Seneca the Younger
• The Jew...is not content merely to destroy Christianity, but he preaches the gospel of Judaism; he not only assails the Catholic or the Protestant faith,… — Bernard Lazare
• No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. — Arthur Schnitzler
• Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. — Ovid
• The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to… — Alexander Pope
• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. — Seneca the Younger
• A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable — Roger Scruton
• The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with… — Havelock Ellis
• By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them… — Winston Churchill
• Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces… — Miguel de Cervantes
• Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you… — Mariella Frostrup
• I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed… — John Bright

Who Wrote These Assails Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Assails Quotes as follows:

• 2 Assails Quotes by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Assails Quote by Alexander Pope
• 1 Assails Quote by Roger Scruton
• 1 Assails Quote by Havelock Ellis
• 1 Assails Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• 1 Assails Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Assails Quote by Miguel de Cervantes
• 1 Assails Quote by Mariella Frostrup
• 1 Assails Quote by John Bright
• 1 Assails Quote by William James
• 1 Assails Quote by Bernard Lazare
• 1 Assails Quote by Arthur Schnitzler
• 1 Assails Quote by Ovid