Clamour Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak…
— Piers Anthony
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They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
— Samuel Johnson
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of…
— J M Coetzee
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The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
— William Shakespeare
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They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed…
— Pope Pius IV
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery…
— Samuel Johnson
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The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter…
— Charlotte Mason
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
— Oswald Chambers
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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific…
— Jacques Attali
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
— Alexander Pope
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God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
— Charles Stanley
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Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in…
— Evelyn Waugh
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When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives…
— C.S. Lewis
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The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration,…
— Christopher Nolan
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with…
— Joseph Conrad
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[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would…
— Clare Balding
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This beautifully stiched skin as white as wax, just like when they were alive. Their mouths that cannot clamour noisily or tell lies any longer...Aren't…
— The Undertaker
Who Wrote These Clamour Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Clamour Quotes as follows: