Characteristics Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Characteristics Cruelty Infallible Meanness
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
“human cruelty was to never be underestimated, always to be believed in,” — Brian Lee Durfee Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad.” Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits… — Poemen Copy Share Image
The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant.… — Amy Trask Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
