Unsuitable Quotes
45 quotes by 40 authors
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
— Samuel Johnson
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable…
— Peter Sellers
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This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in…
— John Quincy Adams
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To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes,…
— Maxim Gorky
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Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.
— Georg Simmel
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An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
— Georg Baselitz
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The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for…
— Ahmed Chalabi
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Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures by boycotting and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the…
— Jacob M. Appel
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As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel…
— Federico Fellini
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human…
— Werner Herzog
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To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
— Peter Sellers
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I thank God that you know the art of tearing yourself apart - I mean the way to humble yourself truly by recognizing and realizing…
— Vincent de Paul
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
— Maeve Binchy
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The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death…
— Jeremy Grantham
Who Wrote These Unsuitable Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 45 Unsuitable Quotes, led by these top contributors: