Thomas Dewar Quotes

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

Thomas Dewar

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Time
  • States
  • Over

• I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • Attention
  • Purpose
  • Pleasure

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Pleasure
  • Kindness
  • Love Is

• No more slave States and no more slave territory.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Slavery
  • Slave
  • States

• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Life
  • Powerful
  • States

• For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Gratitude

• Caught between the tongue and the taste.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Taste
  • Tongue
  • Caught

• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Disappointment

• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Artist

• I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Time
  • Pleasure
  • Realizing

• I was very productive as a senator for my state.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • States
  • Productive
  • Senators

• Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Events
  • States

• This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

  

  Helen Suzman
  • Country
  • States
  • Teeth

• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Death
  • Health

• Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • War
  • Christian
  • Slavery

• An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

  

  Norma Shearer
  • Talent
  • Ego
  • Actress

• The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rank
  • Pretence

• Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Pleasure
  • States
  • Caught