Vexed Quotes

44 quotes by 36 authors

I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a… — William Hazlitt
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent. — Diane Ackerman
The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done… — Isidore of Seville
Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will. Constraining them from… — Crispin Sartwell
President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the… — Vladimir Putin
Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest,… — John Donne
I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me. — Stanley Fish
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased;… — John Vianney
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though… — Martin Farquhar Tupper
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. — Horace Walpole
Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round… — William Butler Yeats
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. — Edmund Waller
Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but , remembering that… — John of Kronstadt
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation… — Spencer W. Kimball
You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession… — Benjamin Disraeli
A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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