Incorrigible Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been…
— Mary McCarthy
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
— A. E. Housman
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The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
— William Ralph Inge
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The gambling reasoner is incorrigible; if he would but take to the squaring of the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.
— Augustus De Morgan
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If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market…
— Joseph Epstein
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Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
— James A. Baldwin
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The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change…
— Mao Zedong
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Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the…
— Vincent de Paul
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of…
— William Hazlitt
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
— Albert Einstein
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
— John Updike
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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
— Albert Camus
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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is…
— Albert Camus
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As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To…
— Susan Sontag
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So what name would you rather I call you? she asked as she headed out of the parking lot. Ias or Alexion. He gave her…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Incorrigible Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Incorrigible Quotes as follows: