Spite Quotes

844 Spite quotes by 654 unique authors

Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My… — Edgar Allan Poe
It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours.… — James Joyce
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I… — Jon Krakauer
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise… — Hermann Hesse
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. — Dallas Willard
When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage… — Michael Jackson
Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all. — Arthur Miller
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up… — Karen Hesse
And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway… — Jhumpa Lahiri
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's… — Anne Rice
Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything… — Ron Currie Jr.
You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a… — Sophie Scholl
Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's… — Teresa Medeiros
I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In… — Lisa Kleypas
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. — Charles Baudelaire
...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary... — Patrick O'Brian
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it… — Jodi Picoult
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted,… — C.S. Lewis
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my… — Annie Dillard
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us… — M.F.K. Fisher
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible. — Henrik Ibsen
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their… — Jhumpa Lahiri

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