Dismay Quote by William Cowper Download Open image “Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.” — William Cowper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dismay Judgment Men Positive Way
It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves. — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“My body is a temple. A temple of decay. Yet I shan't give in to the dismay.” — Narcissismus Decimus Maximus Copy Share Image
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
