Galling Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom… — John Owen
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. — Mahatma Gandhi
It's not the cost (although that pinches), or the time (though that grinds). After a while, it's the sheer galling indignity of being asked to… — Scott Simon
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number… — David George Hogarth
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. — John Millington Synge
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him… — Herman Melville
I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been… — C.D. Payne
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere… — John Muir
The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling… — Frances O'Grady
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift… — H P Lovecraft
Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom… — C.S. Lewis
Delivered from the galling yoke of time. — William Wordsworth
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen — Alexandre Dumas PÃ¨re
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I — Robert Burns

Who Wrote These Galling Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 18 Galling Quotes as follows: