Inveterate Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

Hatred is inveterate anger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack… — Florence Nightingale
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. — Juvenal
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill… — Diogenes
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. — Grover Cleveland
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything — Clifford Geertz
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the… — Ernest Dimnet
Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes… — John Dryden
Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts. — Robert T. Bakker
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you… — Marilyn Hacker
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate… — George Washington
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. — Tom Sizemore
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. — Edith Wharton
The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for… — Alexander Kotov
The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by… — Walter Benjamin
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent… — George F. Kennan
A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines — Vladimir Lenin

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