Complacently Quotes by Mark Twain

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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… — Margaret Sanger
• We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body… — Swami Vivekananda
• But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently,… — E. M. Forster
• Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins. — John Hay
• The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as… — James Thurber
• The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She… — Stephen King
• 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,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
• It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing… — Mark Twain
• Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. — Emily Bronte
• A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair — Niccolo Machiavelli

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