Galling Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
— William Wordsworth
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There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen
— Alexandre Dumas Père
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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: