Quote by Owen Wister Download Open image ““He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.”” — Owen Wister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions, which this wasn’t.) But he described our shortcomings, physical, mental, moral, and genetic, in great and insulting detail. But somehow I was not insulted; I became greatly interested in studying his command of language. I wished… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
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“He swear much, and he red face and loud of voice, but he good fellow all the same;” — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
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“Swearing invulnerably, I measure mercilessly his shortcomings, and with luxurious scorn, ask who could be ensnared there.” — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“When we insult others, it says nothing about them but it shows how vulgar we are.” — Leonard Seet Copy Share Image
“He really did posses the ability to be extremely annoying when he set his mind to it.” — Jen Turano Copy Share Image
“So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
