Affront Quote by Lord Chesterfield

The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have…

— Zack Snyder

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense…

— John Adams

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every…

— Horatio Nelson

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That…

— William Shakespeare

“Sir, as men become in a high degree refined, various causes of offence arise; which are considered to be of such importance, that life…

— Samuel Johnson

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

“People can malign your reputation all they want; you simply must trudge on. Concede defeat if they succeed in tarnishing your character before God…

— Sarah Justina

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every…

— Horatio Nelson

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

— Nic Pizzolatto

“So many worthless people relying on French protection are enabled to sin against me with impunity, and nobody now feels that he has any…

— Virginia Cowles