Contrariness Quote by James Hogg Download Open image ““…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.”” — James Hogg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contrariness Defiance
“I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.” — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Pleasure was a powerful tool. More powerful than pain, if you had the patience for it. Even the women who feared him usually returned,… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“She indulged in silent feelings of satisfaction, pleased with the idea of him suffering. This might even be a bit fun.” — Emily Greenwood Copy Share Image
“That’s how he knew he wasn’t dead. The pleasures might all be gone, but the pain was exquisite.” — Shawn Speakman Copy Share Image
“A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“There's no pleasure in having nothing to do. The pleasure is in having lots to do and not doing it.” — Mary Wilson Little Copy Share Image
“All he wanted was to somehow get there, and taste that joy which everyone but him seemed to be experiencing.” — Christina McKenna Copy Share Image
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction” — James Hogg Copy Share Image
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness! — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be, And will you no come back again?” — James Hogg Copy Share Image
If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that,… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal? — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
