Countenanced Quotes
8 quotes by 5 authors
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
— David Foster Wallace
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Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
— David Foster Wallace
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If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
— John Steinbeck
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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
— Robert Hall
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Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudicial in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and race commends by custom.
— Arthur Helps
Who Wrote These Countenanced Quotes
5 authors contributed a total of 8 Countenanced Quotes as follows: