"The grief of the keen is no personal……" — John Millington Synge
"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
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28 Quotes by John Millington Synge
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The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on…
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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a…
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk…
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her…
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No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe…
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a…
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog,…
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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good…
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More Complaint Quotes
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But,…
— Kirstie Alley
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."
— Van Jones
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this…
— Susan Ward
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young…
— Olive Schreiner
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was…
— Lance Armstrong
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
— Jonathan Swift
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