Complaisance Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that…
— Herbert Hoover
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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid…
— Learned Hand
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Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
— Margaret Fuller
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
— Gustave Flaubert
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
— Thomas Paine
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and…
— Agnes Repplier
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The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their…
— Alexander Hamilton
Who Wrote These Complaisance Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Complaisance Quotes as follows: