Brutal Quote by Vladimir Nabokov Download Open image “I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.” — Vladimir Nabokov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brutal Scoundrels
There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say. — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
I was not, though, born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Despite what people seem to think. — Michael Audain Copy Share Image
If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, -… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
When my friends have been heartbroken, I give them a shoulder to cry on and some brutal advice. — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
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