Estrange Quotes & Sayings

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man. — Roger L'Estrange

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more. — Roger L'Estrange

Wickedness may prosper for a while. — Roger L'Estrange

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. — Roger L'Estrange

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. — Roger L'Estrange

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness. — Roger L'Estrange

...There is no worse way to abuse a man's patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land... — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course. — Roger L'Estrange

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes. — Roger L'Estrange

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. — Heath L'Estrange

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. — Roger L'Estrange

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying? — Roger L'Estrange

Live and let live is the rule of common justice. — Roger L'Estrange

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power. — Roger L'Estrange

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses. — Roger L'Estrange

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better. — Roger L'Estrange

What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied. — Roger L'Estrange

Call it a good marriage -
For no one ever questioned
Her warmth, his masculinity,
Their interlocking views;
Except one stray graphologist
Who frowned in speculation
At her h's and her s's,
His p's and w's.

Though few would still subscribe
To the monogamic axiom
That strife below the hip-bones
Need not estrange the heart,
Call it a good marriage:
More drew those two together,
Despite a lack of children,
Than pulled them apart.

Call it a good marriage:
They never fought in public,
They acted circumspectly
And faced the world with pride;
Thus the hazards of their love-bed
Were none of our damned business -
Till as jurymen we sat on
Two deaths by suicide. — Robert Graves

Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as, by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. — Roger L'Estrange

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind. — Roger L'Estrange

Money does all things,
for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter. — Roger L'Estrange

When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. — Heath L'Estrange

I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids. — Noy Holland

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. — Heath L'Estrange

In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things for a few moments, that the most ordinary objects and events appear quite new and unfamiliar. In this way their true nature is disclosed. What is here demanded cannot, perhaps, be said to be difficult; it is not in our power at all, but is just the province of genius. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them. — Roger L'Estrange

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. — Roger L'Estrange

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy. — Roger L'Estrange

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. — Roger L'Estrange

Definition, like poetry, is the project of revivifying the familiar. Making things we think we know seem newly strange. To estrange, according to Hegel, is requisite to practicing consciousness. — Alena Graedon

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light. — Theodor W. Adorno

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure. — Roger L'Estrange

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset. — Roger L'Estrange

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her. — Roger L'Estrange

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them. — Roger L'Estrange

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. — Roger L'Estrange

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point. — Roger L'Estrange

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things. — Charles Baudelaire

He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which, by my theory, must in some degree estrange me and him, changed, indeed, somewhat our relations; but not in the sense I painfully anticipated. An invisible, but a cold something, very slight, very transparent, but very chill: a sort of screen of ice had hitherto, all through our two lives, glazed the medium through which we exchanged intercourse. Those few warm words, though only warm with anger, breathed on that frail frost-work of reserve; about this time, it gave note of dissolution. I think from that day, so long as we continued friends, he never in discourse stood on topics of ceremony with me. — Charlotte Bronte

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure. — Roger L'Estrange

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other. — Heath L'Estrange

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture
how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion? — Roger L'Estrange

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch. — Roger L'Estrange

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. — Roger L'Estrange

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners. — Roger L'Estrange

stoodAloof from streets, encompass'd with a wood.Dryden.2. Applied to persons, it often insinuates caution and circumspection. Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel,And make the cowards stand aloof at bay.Shak.Henry VI. Going northwards, aloof, as long as they had any doubt of being pursued, at last when they were out of reach, they turned and crossed the ocean to Spain.Bacon. The king would not, by any means, enter the city, until he had aloof seen the cross set up upon the greater tower of Granada, whereby it became Christian ground.Bacon'sHen. VII. Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay. The water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from t'other.L'Estrange'sFables. The strong may fight aloof; Ancaeus try'dHis force too — Samuel Johnson

He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages. — Roger L'Estrange

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied. — Roger L'Estrange

Isn't it a riddle ... and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator ... Only man can be truly ugly, because he has the free will to estrange himself from this song of praise.
It often seems that he'll manage to drown out this hymn with his cannon thunder, curses and blasphemy. But during this past spring it has dawned upon me that he won't be able to do this. And so I want to try and throw myself on the side of the victor. — Sophie Scholl

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says. — Roger L'Estrange

The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing ... Because we estrange the Spirit of the Lord when we engage in activities we know we should shun, then such things definitely are not for us. — David A. Bednar

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal — Roger L'Estrange

Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law. — Heath L'Estrange

You cannot have a deep sympathy with both man & nature. Those qualities which bring you near to the one estrange you from the other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. — Roger L'Estrange

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues. — Roger L'Estrange

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts. — Roger L'Estrange

So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it. — Roger L'Estrange

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life ... within a given age in a given society ... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal ... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad. — Leo Tolstoy

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. — Roger L'Estrange

The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii. — Samuel Johnson

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end? — Roger L'Estrange

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one. — Roger L'Estrange

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. — Roger L'Estrange

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit. — Roger L'Estrange

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. — Roger L'Estrange

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools. — Roger L'Estrange

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. — Gilbert Parker

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. — Roger L'Estrange

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged. — Roger L'Estrange

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. — Roger L'Estrange

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason. — Roger L'Estrange