Grottesco Significato Quotes & Sayings

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage. — Jeremy Collier

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney. — Abraham Lincoln

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way. — Ellen Gilchrist

The nurse looked surprised. 'You're a bit high on the totem pole to be taking statements.' Carol debated momentarily how to describe her relationship with Tony. 'Colleague' was insufficient, 'landlord' somehow misleading and 'friend' both more and less than the truth. She shrugged. 'He feeds my cat. — Val McDermid

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors. — Jonathan Swift

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Romance can end, but I don't think art really ends, as romantic as that might sound. — Stew

When I read something by someone... I like to dive in his world as much as possible. — Deyth Banger

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard. — Lin Yutang

It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists ... We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite. — Christina Aguilera

I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and admirably descriptive of her pain: they did not come from her understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which came to her from such delectable pain, she complained of it to her God. She would have been so glad if she could have been cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain caused her. What torments could have been set before her at such a time which she would not have found it delectable to endure for her Lord's sake? — Teresa Of Avila

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. — Calvin Coolidge

No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup. — Kapil Dev

The kids of tomorrow don't need today when they live in the sins of yesterday. — Billy Talent