Deny Quote by Publilius Syrus Download Open image “It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.” — Publilius Syrus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deny Immediately Kindness Refuse You
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
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
I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused. — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
No one expects you to deny and no one accepts your reasons why. You cling to the ways of my name when you touch… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open… — Jack Miles Copy Share Image
If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point? — Vanessa Marcil 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
