Complaisance Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• 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
• I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu
• 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
• 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
• Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. — Gustave Flaubert
• It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. — Thomas Paine
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Complaisance Quote by Herbert Hoover
• 1 Complaisance Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu
• 1 Complaisance Quote by Learned Hand
• 1 Complaisance Quote by Margaret Fuller
• 1 Complaisance Quote by Gustave Flaubert
• 1 Complaisance Quote by Thomas Paine
• 1 Complaisance Quote by Agnes Repplier
• 1 Complaisance Quote by Alexander Hamilton