Deny Quote by Publilius Syrus Download Open image “It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.” — Publilius Syrus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deny Honesty Kindness Refuse
One cannot always bestow all manner of things upon everybody. To refuse a request for just cause is as praiseworthy as to grant a request that is worthy. It is for this reason that the "no" of some people pleases more than the "yes" of others. A refusal accompanied by sweet words and a civil manner gives more satisfaction to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
As part of my new resolution I promise myself I will never let people take advantage of my kindness anymore. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. — Confucius Copy Share Image
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.” — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy. — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is you that I want primarily, not mythical children. I can survive the loss of something I've never had.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share
Grace is ours. Let's live it! Deny it or debate it and we kill it. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet… — Nam June Paik Copy Share Image
Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it… — Shawn Phillips Copy Share Image
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
