Humiliations Quotes

• You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Good
  • Water
  • Humble

• Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Hope

• These humiliations are the essence of the game.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Game
  • Essence
  • Humiliations

• In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Essence

• A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Boys
  • Sensitive
  • Humiliations

• I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Idea
  • False

• My move to autobiography came about after two public humiliations, one by my advisor, one by another feminist. Don’t believe in the institution and its authorities, but do your work.

  

  Nancy K. Miller
  • Autobiography
  • Authorities
  • Humiliations