Complacently Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted…
— Margaret Sanger
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We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most…
— Swami Vivekananda
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking…
— E. M. Forster
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Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
— John Hay
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed…
— James Thurber
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The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering…
— Stephen King
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Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace…
— Mark Twain
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
— Emily Bronte
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A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Who Wrote These Complacently Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Complacently Quotes as follows: