Unsuitable Quotes

45 Unsuitable quotes by 40 unique authors

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
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. — Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
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
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. — Georg Baselitz
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
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
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable — Benoit Mandelbrot
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
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
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
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
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius
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
To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. — Peter Sellers
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
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. — Maeve Binchy
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
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society. — Henry Adams
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and… — Gustav Mahler
My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby. — Carol Vorderman
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don't really… — Mary Oliver
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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