Vehemence Quotes

• The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes , – and to speak.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Love
  • Right
  • Emotion

• So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Vehemence
  • Upbraided

• There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Dangerous
  • Expression
  • Delusion

• Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Master
  • Chemistry
  • Vehemence

• There's a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that's directed at me anddirected at the president. You know, people talking about taking their country back. There's a certain racial component to this for some people. I don't think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there's a racial animus.

  

  Eric Holder
  • President
  • Racial
  • Driver