His Breast Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is pleasant to spend time with Him, to lie close to His breast like the Beloved Disciple and to feel the infinite love present…
— Pope John Paul II
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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
— Simonides of Ceos
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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
— William Butler Yeats
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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on…
— John Burroughs
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all…
— Oscar Wilde
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Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers,…
— Sima Qian
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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With his long sharp nails he opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one…
— Bram Stoker
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his…
— Homer
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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
— Frederick Buechner
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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast…
— Mary Pickford
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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain…
— Gustave Flaubert
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What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps…
— Hermann Hesse
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Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in…
— Otto von Bismarck
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It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to…
— James Clavell
Who Wrote These His Breast Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 His Breast Quotes as follows: