Disgusting Quote by Rex Stout Download Open image “War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.” — Rex Stout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disgusting Dread Fear Mature Men Pickles War
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell! — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationships between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other,… — John Fowles The Magus Copy Share
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationship between objects. Whether the objects love each other, need each other,… — John Fowles Copy Share
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out… — Neil Lowe Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“everything from war to picnics depends on the weather, as Wolfe remarked” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“When we turned right on Thirty-fifth Street our suffix came along. By the time we rolled to the curb in front of Wolfe's house… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I wonder what disgusts you more, the fact that I’m a demon, or the fact that when I touch you, it doesn’t matter. — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right. — Laura Fraser Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually. — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure. — Billie Piper Copy Share Image
“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help but notice… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Get off me,” Harry spat, throwing Pettigrew’s hands off him in disgust. “I’m not doing this for you. I’m doing it because — I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
