Forbearance Quotes

• I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Important
  • Domestic
  • Exertion

• The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

  

  William Empson
  • Difficult
  • Temper
  • Accommodations

• If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write about what he knows, and since I know nothing about any subject it scarcely matters where I dabble.

  

  William T. Vollmann
  • Writing
  • Craving
  • Advertisements

• It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Patience
  • Mankind
  • Forbearance

• There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Persons
  • Kindness
  • Infinite