Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "S" » sneers
«The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.»
Author: George William Curtis
| Keywords:
degeneracy, demagogue, demagogues, foundations, recorded, sneer, sneering, sneers
«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, convince, degrees, durable, investment, investments, in writing, misunderstand, most-valuable, on the way, paid off, pays, pay off, publisher, publishers, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers, writes, write off, writing style
«I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
ancestry, atomic, consequently, globule, My Family, primordial, sneered, sneering, sneers, trace
«My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.»
«Neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us»
«The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apt, insignificant, lowering, neighbors, rising, self esteem, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers
«It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attuned, malice, penetrating, pinch, reports, sneers, wonderfully
«Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
although, ill, ill health, jeer, jeered, jeering, jeers, mend, mending, physicians, propensities, propensity, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers
«A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.»
«The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
