Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

I hate a style that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality. Shenstone.

I hate bungling as I do sin, but particularly 30 bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people. Goethe.

I hate ingratitude more in a man / Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, / Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption / Inhabits our frail blood. Twelfth Night, iii. 1.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. Merry Wives, iii. 5.

I have a very poor opinion of a man who talks to men what women should not hear. Richardson.

I have all I have ever enjoyed. Bettine.

I have always been a quarter of an hour 35 before my time, and it has made a man of me. Nelson.

I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve. Burns.

I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child. Judge Haliburton.

I have been reasoning all my life, and find that all argument will vanish before one touch of Nature. Colman.