Clamorous Quotes

17 quotes by 13 authors

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. — Isaac Barrow
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. — William Shakespeare
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. — Oscar Wilde
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.… — Joseph Addison
Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits. — Joy Williams
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
From the first I was clamorous to learn ... — Eudora Welty
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. — Sophocles
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. — Ben Okri
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an… — H. L. Mencken
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits. — William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs… — William Shakespeare
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism… — Karen Armstrong
O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold… — Amy Carmichael
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. — Bible

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