Spleen Quotes

25 quotes by 21 authors

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism… — William Hazlitt
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. — Sun Tzu
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If… — Sun Tzu
And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and… — K. W. Jeter
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee,… — Joseph Addison
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen… — Sloane Crosley
If your breath is very deep in the lungs, it will give you a good red blood. Good red blood, with the oxygen, is quite… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. — William Wordsworth
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their… — William Hazlitt
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the… — Jack Dee
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed… — William Shakespeare
I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.' — Olivia Wilde
You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or… — Douglas Coupland
My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow. — Dan Brown
Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams… — Douglas Coupland
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the… — Philip K. Dick
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and… — Anne Sexton
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the… — Augusten Burroughs
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a… — William Shakespeare
Read day and night, devour booksâ€”these sleeping pillsâ€”not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of… — Emile M. Cioran

Who Wrote These Spleen Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 25 Spleen Quotes as follows: