Spite Quotes

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

I'm successful in spite of my past, not because of it!

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

Common sense is in spite of, not because of age.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.

Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

Don't bite off your head to spite your nose.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

Unconditional love is being connected to Source in spite on the conditions.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

I would never do anything just for spite.

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.